Words Like IDEA
    
   We have put together a list of words that are similar to IDEA.
    
    
    
        
            58 Alternative Words Similar to idea
   
            
               
            
            
        
       
    
    
        5 examples of idea
           
        
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        an essential idea; the idea of development.
    
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        a rough idea how long it would take
    
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        the idea of the game is to capture all the pieces
    
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        the accompanist picked up the idea and elaborated it
    
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        the thought never entered my mind
    
       
    
    
        10 definitions of idea
           
        
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        The transcript, image, or picture of a visible object, that is formed by the mind; also, a similar image of any object whatever, whether sensible or spiritual.
    
    
    
 
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        A general notion, or a conception formed by generalization.
    
    
    
 
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        Hence: Any object apprehended, conceived, or thought of, by the mind; a notion, conception, or thought; the real object that is conceived or thought of.
    
    
    
 
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        A belief, option, or doctrine; a characteristic or controlling principle
    
    
    
 
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        A plan or purpose of action; intention; design.
    
    
    
 
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        A rational conception; the complete conception of an object when thought of in all its essential elements or constituents; the necessary metaphysical or constituent attributes and relations, when conceived in the abstract.
    
    
    
 
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        A fiction object or picture created by the imagination; the same when proposed as a pattern to be copied, or a standard to be reached; one of the archetypes or patterns of created things, conceived by the Platonists to have excited objectively from eternity in the mind of the Deity.
    
    
    
 
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        an approximate calculation of quantity or degree or worth
    
    
    
 
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        your intention; what you intend to do
    
    
    
 
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        (music) melodic subject of a musical composition