Antonyms for formulate
ˈfɔr myəˌleɪtfor·mu·late

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1. explicate, formulate, developverb

   elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses

   "Could you develop the ideas in your thesis"

   Synonyms:
   rise, grow, educate, produce, explain, train, acquire, invent, explicate, make grow, develop, excogitate, evolve, arise, germinate, articulate, devise, break, modernise, spring up, phrase, build up, get, originate, give voice, contrive, word, forge, uprise, modernize, recrudesce, prepare

2. invent, contrive, devise, excogitate, formulate, forgeverb

   come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort

   "excogitate a way to measure the speed of light"

   Synonyms:
   excogitate, ruminate, work, fake, prepare, make up, develop, contemplate, muse, get up, organize, fabricate, forge, plan, speculate, throw, cast, mull over, think over, form, mould, invent, word, manufacture, mull, explicate, reflect, fashion, articulate, spirt, cook up, organise, meditate, hammer, counterfeit, chew over, contrive, shape, phrase, ponder, spurt, give voice, project, design, machinate, devise, mold

3. give voice, formulate, word, phrase, articulateverb

   put into words or an expression

   "He formulated his concerns to the board of trustees"

   Synonyms:
   sound out, devise, enounce, explicate, say, develop, excogitate, enunciate, articulate, joint, phrase, pronounce, vocalise, invent, contrive, vocalize, word, forge, give voice

4. formulateverb

   prepare according to a formula

   Synonyms:
   phrase, devise, explicate, invent, word, excogitate, forge, articulate, give voice, contrive, develop

How to use formulate in a sentence?

1. Mike Tomlin:

   Claypool plays wideout. I’ll let him do that, i’ll formulate the practice approach and I think that division of labor is probably appropriate.

2. Daniel Levitin:

   Knowing better how the brain is organized, how it functions, what chemical messengers are working and how they're working -- that will allow us to formulate treatments for people with brain injury, or to combat diseases or disorders or even psychiatric problems.

3. Peter Marks:

   Now is the time to discuss the need for future boosters as we aim to move forward safely, with COVID-19 becoming a virus like others such as influenza that we prepare for, protect against, and treat, bringing together our panel of expert scientific external advisors in an open, transparent discussion about booster vaccination is an important step to gain insight, input and expert advice as we begin to formulate the best regulatory strategy to address COVID-19 and virus variants going forward.

4. Joe Crameri:

   Once we've got that information, then we'll be able to formulate a more correct plan for how we can separate Nima Pelden but at the moment we remain confident that we should achieve that in a single operation and we should be able to achieve a good outcome for both twins.

5. Alfred Jules Ayer:

   The fact that people have religious experiences is interesting from the psychological point of view, but it does not in any way imply that there is such a thing as religious knowledge...Unless he can formulate this 'knowledge' in propositions that are empirically verifiable, we may be sure that he is deceiving himself.

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