Antonyms for IDEA
aɪˈdi ə, aɪˈdiəidea

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1. ideanoun

   Synonyms:
   image

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1. idea

   Idea is in Greek a form or an image. The word signified in early philosophical use the archetype or primal image which the Platonic philosophy supposed to be the model or pattern that existing objects imperfectly embody. This high sense has nearly disappeared from the word idea, and has been largely appropriated by ideal, tho something of the original meaning still appears when in theological or philosophical language we speak of the ideas of God. The present popular use of idea makes it to signify any product of mental apprehension or activity, considered as an object of knowledge or thought; this coincides with the primitive sense at but a single point — that an idea is mental as opposed to anything substantial or physical; thus, almost any mental product, as a belief, conception, design, opinion, etc., may now be called an idea. Compare FANCY; IDEAL.

   Antonyms:
   actuality, fact, reality, substance

   Synonyms:
   apprehension, archetype, belief, conceit, concept, conception, design, fancy, fantasy, ideal, image, imagination, impression, judgment, model, notion, opinion, pattern, plan, purpose, sentiment, supposition, theory, thought

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1. idea

   Antonyms:
   object, form, subject, thing, reality

   Synonyms:
   image, notion, conception, belief, doctrine, supposition, understanding, fiction, fancy, thought, opinion, impression, sentiment

Matched Categories

1. • Calculation
   • Cognitive Content
   • Melody
   • Music
   • Opinion
   • Purpose

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1. idea, thoughtnoun

   the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about

   "it was not a good idea"; "the thought never entered my mind"

   Synonyms:
   view, thought, persuasion, theme, thought process, estimate, musical theme, idea, cerebration, approximation, opinion, mind, intellection, mentation, thinking, melodic theme, sentiment, estimation

2. mind, ideanoun

   your intention; what you intend to do

   "he had in mind to see his old teacher"; "the idea of the game is to capture all the pieces"

   Synonyms:
   thought, thinker, theme, psyche, musical theme, idea, approximation, estimate, creative thinker, mind, head, melodic theme, nous, judgement, judgment, brain, intellect, estimation

3. ideanoun

   a personal view

   "he has an idea that we don't like him"

   Synonyms:
   theme, estimate, musical theme, approximation, mind, estimation, melodic theme, thought

4. estimate, estimation, approximation, ideanoun

   an approximate calculation of quantity or degree or worth

   "an estimate of what it would cost"; "a rough idea how long it would take"

   Synonyms:
   theme, idea, appraisal, estimate, musical theme, approximation, bringing close together, estimation, melodic theme, mind, thought

5. theme, melodic theme, musical theme, ideanoun

   (music) melodic subject of a musical composition

   "the theme is announced in the first measures"; "the accompanist picked up the idea and elaborated it"

   Synonyms:
   theme, musical theme, paper, thought, radical, topic, composition, subject, report, motif, base, idea, approximation, estimate, stem, mind, root, melodic theme, root word, estimation

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1. ideanoun

   Synonyms:
   conception, notion, opinion, fancy, impression, intention, design

How to use IDEA in a sentence?

1. Alfred Hitchcock:

   We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like. I have prepared one of my own. I have placed some rather large samples of dynamite, gunpowder, and nitroglycerin. My time capsule is set to go off in the year 3000. It will show them what we are really like.

2. Peter Bakwin:

   The idea is simple: To get to finish as fast as possible.

3. Heidi Jo Newberg:

   This idea brings down the size and the weight of what you have to send up into space to get the desired high resolution of a telescope like Webb, what we’re trying to do is exploit this out-of-the-box design to make it possible to find Earth-like planets.

4. David Blanchflower:

   This is the most idiotic idea I have ever heard from a presidential candidate. The entire economics profession thinks it's a joke, it would be more sensible to go on the goldfish standard.

5. Aaron Reichlin-Melnick:

   American Immigration Council also strongly increases the risk of unconstitutional racial profiling by calling on Texas DPS to pull over any vehicle that they have reasonable suspicion is transporting migrants, american Immigration Council could severely disrupt the Biden administration's effort to create a public and private partnership to ensure migrants released by government custody are not simply dropped off at the bus station with no idea where to go.

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