FORMULATE • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Formulate

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/fˈɔrmjəlˌeɪt/ Listen

Formulate

verb

(past & past part. formulated; pres. part. formulating)

Elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses. Synonyms: develop, explicate.

Come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort. Synonyms: contrive, devise, excogitate, forge, invent.

Put into words or an expression. Synonyms: articulate, give voice, phrase, word.

Prepare according to a formula.

See more definitions of Formulate...

See images of 'Formulate'

Etymology of 'Formulate'

Related search:

reformulate

Share |

Add this dictionary
to your browser search bar

"Formulate" Quotes from Famous Books

... letter came Harvey had brought round the engagement ring. He had made a little money in war stocks, and into the ring he had put every dollar of his profits—and a great love, and gentleness, and hopes which he did not formulate even to himself. ...

— The Amazing Interlude • Mary Roberts Rinehart

... if one must formulate a definition, is the written record of man's best thought and feeling, and English literature is the part of that record which belongs to the English people. In its broadest sense literature includes all writing, but as we commonly define the term it excludes ...

— Outlines of English and American Literature • William J. Long

... tempt one to become almost lyrical in its praise; but I remember that, encountering the picture unexpectedly in New York a year or two after it had been exhibited in Paris, it seemed to me to have acquired an extraordinary general value, to stand for more artistic truth than it would be easy to formulate. The language of painting, the tongue in which, exclusively, Mr. Sargent expresses himself, is a medium into which a considerable part of the public, for the simple an excellent reason that they don't understand it, will doubtless always be ...

— Picture and Text - 1893 • Henry James

... is considering and will formulate during the coming winter a plan for laying up ships in reserve, thereby largely reducing the cost of maintaining our vessels afloat. This plan contemplates that battle ships, torpedo boats, and such of the cruisers as are not needed for ...

— Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents - Volume 8, Section 2 (of 2): Grover Cleveland • Grover Cleveland

... (he had a passionate aversion to baring his body before strangers), the inability to find anything to do and the compulsion to endless small talk. A thought flitted over his mind which he was too loyal to formulate. Once he and his wife had had similar likings, but they had taken different roads since their child died. Janet! He saw again—he was never quite free from the sight—the solemn little white-frocked girl who had died long ...

— Huntingtower • John Buchan

More quotes...