Crossword-Solution: IDEA 4 letters, 1469 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

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Word Word Type Definition
Idea n. 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.
Idea n. A general notion, or a conception formed by generalization.
Idea n. 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.
Idea n. A belief, option, or doctrine; a characteristic or
controlling principle; as, an essential idea; the idea of development.
Idea n. A plan or purpose of action; intention; design.
Idea n. 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.
Idea n. 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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Word Anagrams
IDEA anagram ADIE, AIDE, IDAE

We have 1469 clues for the answer “IDEA”

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Something a light bulb might represent 1 answer
" . . . an ___ whose time has come": Hugo 1 answer
". . . you get the ___" 1 answer
"A point of departure and no more": Picasso 1 answer
"Ah-ha" predecessor 1 answer
"Aha moment" cause 1 answer
"Aha moment" producer 1 answer
"Aha!" elicitor 1 answer
"An __ is salvation by imagination": Frank Lloyd Wright 1 answer
"Bad ___ Jeans" (classic SNL skit) 1 answer
"Big" or "bright" notion 1 answer
"Big" or "rough" concept 1 answer
"Bright" thought 1 answer
"Can I bounce an ___ off you?" 1 answer
"Don't get the wrong ___" 1 answer
"Drawing is putting a line round an ___": Henri Matisse 1 answer
"Eureka!" elicitor 1 answer
"Eureka!" inspirer 1 answer
"Eureka!" producer 1 answer
"Foggiest" notion 1 answer
"For poetry the ___ is everything": Matthew Arnold 1 answer
"Good ___!" ("Nice thinking!") 1 answer
"Good thinking!" thought 1 answer
"Headache with pictures," according to Fry from Futurama 1 answer
"Here's a better ___ ..." 1 answer
"Here's an __ ... " 1 answer
"Hey, what's the big ___?" 1 answer
"I don't have the faintest ___!" 1 answer
"I had no __!" 1 answer
"I had no __!": "What a surprise!" 1 answer
"I have an __!" 1 answer
"I've got an __!" 1 answer
"I've got it!" elicitor 1 answer
"If at first, the ___ is not absurd, then there is no hope for it": Einstein 1 answer
"It seemed like a good ___ at the time!" 1 answer
"Light" of a light bulb moment 1 answer
"Lightbulb," in the comics 1 answer
"No __": "Beats me" 1 answer
"No ___" ("Don't ask me") 1 answer
"No ___" ("I'm stumped") 1 answer
"Novel" concept 1 answer
"Now there's an ___!" 1 answer
"Oh, wow, I had no ___!" 1 answer
"Paris is always a good ___" (line from the film "Sabrina") 1 answer
"Salvation by imagination," per Frank Lloyd Wright 1 answer
"Say, there's an ___!" 1 answer
"Shark Tank" pitch 1 answer
"Shark Tank" presentation 1 answer
"That Is NOT a Good __!": Mo Willems children's book 1 answer
"That's a great ___!" 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
ARAE
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CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with IDEA (5)

Babies? To prevent Peter ordering babies they hurried into song again: “We’ve made the roses peeping out, The babes are at the door, We cannot make ourselves, you know, ’Cos we’ve been made before.” Peter, seeing this to be a good idea, at once pretended that it was his own.
Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991
Here finish’d hee, and all that he had made View’d, and behold all was entirely good; So Ev’n and Morn accomplish’d the Sixt day: Yet not till the Creator from his work Desisting, though unwearied, up returnd Up to the Heav’n of Heav’ns his high abode, Thence to behold this new created World Th’ addition of his Empire, how it shew’d In prospect from his Throne, how good, how faire, Answering his great Idea.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
The Mouse, recognizing his roar, came and gnawed the rope with his teeth, and set him free, exclaiming: “You ridiculed the idea of my ever being able to help you, not expecting to receive from me any repayment of your favor; now you know that it is possible for even a Mouse to confer benefits on a Lion.” The Charcoal-Burner And The Fuller A CHARCOAL-BURNER carried on his trade in his own house.
Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000
They do not deny that the slaves are held as property; but that terrible fact seems to convey to their minds no idea of injustice, exposure to outrage, or savage barbarity.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass 1992
The idea of such a slight wind catching it.” The cow standing erect was of the Devon breed, and was encased in a tight warm hide of rich Indian red, as absolutely uniform from eyes to tail as if the animal had been dipped in a dye of that colour, her long back being mathematically level.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992

Quotes with IDEA (3)

I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together.
Lisa Kleypas Blue-Eyed Devil
I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romanticperson has a desperate confidence that they won't.
F. Scott Fitzgerald This Side of Paradise
If you want something new, then come up with a new idea and take action.
Debasish Mridha
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Used 3,610 times in crossword archives (1944–2025).