create mentally

/kriˌeɪt ˌmɛntli/

Other forms: created mentally

Definitions of create mentally

1. verb

   create mentally and abstractly rather than with one's hands
   synonyms: create by mental act

   types:

   draw, make

   make, formulate, or derive in the mind

   re-create

   form anew in the imagination; recollect and re-form in the mind

   give birth

   create or produce an idea

   schematize

   formulate in regular order; to reduce to a scheme or formula

   contrive, devise, excogitate, forge, formulate, invent

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

   conceive, conceptualise, conceptualize, gestate

   have the idea for

   concoct, dream up, hatch, think of, think up

   devise or invent

   conceive of, envisage, ideate, imagine

   form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case

   contrive, design, plan, project

   make or work out a plan for; devise

   design, plan

   make a design of; plan out in systematic, often graphic form

   write

   create code, write a computer program

   develop, evolve, germinate

   work out

   program, programme

   write a computer program

   construct

   create by organizing and linking ideas, arguments, or concepts

   construct

   create by linking linguistic units

   hack, hack on

   fix a computer program piecemeal until it works

   idealise, idealize

   form ideals

   engineer

   design as an engineer

   design

   conceive or fashion in the mind; invent

   preconceive

   conceive beforehand

   cook up, fabricate, fabulate, invent, make up, manufacture

   make up something artificial or untrue

   envision, fancy, figure, image, picture, project, see, visualise, visualize

   imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind

   visualise, visualize

   form a mental picture of something that is invisible or abstract

   envision, foresee

   picture to oneself; imagine possible

   fantasise, fantasize

   portray in the mind

   prefigure

   imagine or consider beforehand

   think

   imagine or visualize

   fantasise, fantasize, fantasy, phantasy

   indulge in fantasies

   daydream, dream, stargaze, woolgather

   have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy

   discover, find

   make a discovery, make a new finding

   plot

   devise the sequence of events in (a literary work or a play, movie, or ballet)

   concert

   contrive (a plan) by mutual agreement

   redesign

   design anew, make a new design for

   blueprint, draft, draught

   make a blueprint of

   reproduce

   recreate a sound, image, idea, mood, atmosphere, etc.

   map, map out

   plan, delineate, or arrange in detail

   strategize

   devise a strategy, plan, or course of action

   type of:

   create, make

   make or cause to be or to become