All big idea synonyms
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B b noun big idea
- determination β Determination is the quality that you show when you have decided to do something and you will not let anything stop you.
- wish β to want; desire; long for (usually followed by an infinitive or a clause): I wish to travel. I wish that it were morning.
- aspiration β Someone's aspirations are their desire to achieve things.
- reason β a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.: the reason for declaring war.
- intent β something that is intended; purpose; design; intention: The original intent of the committee was to raise funds.
- principle β an accepted or professed rule of action or conduct: a person of good moral principles.
- ambition β If you have an ambition to do or achieve something, you want very much to do it or achieve it.
- objective β something that one's efforts or actions are intended to attain or accomplish; purpose; goal; target: the objective of a military attack; the objective of a fund-raising drive.
- scope β extent or range of view, outlook, application, operation, effectiveness, etc.: an investigation of wide scope.
- target β an object, usually marked with concentric circles, to be aimed at in shooting practice or contests.
- resolution β a formal expression of opinion or intention made, usually after voting, by a formal organization, a legislature, a club, or other group. Compare concurrent resolution, joint resolution.
- instruction β machine instruction
- tip β Eugene (Gladstone) 1888β1953, U.S. playwright: Nobel prize 1936.
- invitation β the act of inviting.
- charge β If you charge someone an amount of money, you ask them to pay that amount for something that you have sold to them or done for them.
- motivation β the act or an instance of motivating, or providing with a reason to act in a certain way: I don't understand what her motivation was for quitting her job. Synonyms: motive, inspiration, inducement, cause, impetus.
- justification β a reason, fact, circumstance, or explanation that justifies or defends: His insulting you was ample justification for you to leave the party.
- philosophy β the rational investigation of the truths and principles of being, knowledge, or conduct.
- motive β something that causes a person to act in a certain way, do a certain thing, etc.; incentive.
- rationalization β to ascribe (one's acts, opinions, etc.) to causes that superficially seem reasonable and valid but that actually are unrelated to the true, possibly unconscious and often less creditable or agreeable causes.
- reaction β a reverse movement or tendency; an action in a reverse direction or manner.
- life β the condition that distinguishes organisms from inorganic objects and dead organisms, being manifested by growth through metabolism, reproduction, and the power of adaptation to environment through changes originating internally.
- force β physical power or strength possessed by a living being: He used all his force in opening the window.
- deal β If you say that you need or have a great deal of or a good deal of a particular thing, you are emphasizing that you need or have a lot of it.
- process β a systematic series of actions directed to some end: to devise a process for homogenizing milk.
- plan β a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
- activity β Activity is a situation in which a lot of things are happening or being done.
- operation β an act or instance, process, or manner of functioning or operating.
- response β an answer or reply, as in words or in some action.
- movement β the act, process, or result of moving.
- ballgame β any game played with a ball
- impression β a strong effect produced on the intellect, feelings, conscience, etc.
- abstraction β An abstraction is a general idea rather than one relating to a particular object, person, or situation.
- brainchild β Someone's brainchild is an idea or invention that they have thought up or created.
- apprehension β Apprehension is a feeling of fear that something bad may happen.
- slant β to veer or angle away from a given level or line, especially from a horizontal; slope.
- supposition β the act of supposing.
- twist β to combine, as two or more strands or threads, by winding together; intertwine.
- conceit β Conceit is very great pride in your abilities or achievements that other people feel is too great.
- hypothesis β a proposition, or set of propositions, set forth as an explanation for the occurrence of some specified group of phenomena, either asserted merely as a provisional conjecture to guide investigation (working hypothesis) or accepted as highly probable in the light of established facts.
- consideration β Consideration is careful thought about something.
- wrinkle β an ingenious trick or device; a clever innovation: a new advertising wrinkle.
- conceptualization β to form into a concept; make a concept of.
- intellection β the action or process of understanding; the exercise of the intellect; reasoning.
- do β Informal. a burst of frenzied activity; action; commotion.
- thing β (in Scandinavian countries) a public meeting or assembly, especially a legislative assembly or a court of law.
- winning β a victory, as in a game or horse race.
- commission β If you commission something or commission someone to do something, you formally arrange for someone to do a piece of work for you.
- quest β a search or pursuit made in order to find or obtain something: a quest for uranium mines; a quest for knowledge.
- performance β a musical, dramatic, or other entertainment presented before an audience.