idea

idea is a 4-letter English word with 12 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 5 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 5 · Words With Friends 5 · 12 senses

Definitions

1. noun. 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.
2. noun. A general notion, or a conception formed by generalization.
3. noun. 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.
4. noun. A belief, option, or doctrine; a characteristic or controlling principle; as, an essential idea; the idea of development.
5. noun. A plan or purpose of action; intention; design.
6. noun. 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.
7. noun. 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.
8. noun. 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: approximation, estimate, estimation

9. noun. the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about

   "it was not a good idea"

   "the thought never entered my mind"

   Synonyms: thought

10. noun. a personal view

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

11. noun. 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: mind

12. noun. (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

Synonyms

approximation, estimate, estimation, thought, mind, theme

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in idea:

aide, deia

Common word forms

ideas, ideaed, idealy, ideaful, idealess, ideation

Words from these letters

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