generate

Meaning

Verb

1. (transitive) To bring into being; give rise to.
2. (transitive) To produce as a result of a chemical or physical process.
3. (transitive) To procreate, beget.
4. (transitive) To form a figure from a curve or solid.
5. (intransitive) To appear or occur; be generated.

Adj

Generated, not self-existent.

Opposite of

ingenerate

Synonyms

produce

engender

create

beget

yield

bring forth

cause

give

originate

bring about

procreate

bear

🐻

father

👨‍👦

have

return

establish

make

manufacture

breed

spawn

derive

deliver

set up

give birth

sire

generation

render

mother

👩‍🍼

provoke

raise

span

emit

effect

birth

work

give rise to

give rise

do

give off

get

construct

conceive

bring

induce

lay

calve

build

drop

draw

bring out

Translations

engendrer

générer

generare

generar

gerar

erzeugen

producir

produire

verwekken

procriar

produrre

engendrar

faire

fazer

maken

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈd͡ʒɛn.ə.ɹeɪt/

Etymology

From Latin generō (“beget, procreate, produce”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix), from genus (“a kind, race, family”, gener- in compounds) + -ō; see genus. Compare Italian generare, French générer (and its older (and now obsolete) English cognate from Middle French, gender (“engender, breed, copulate”)).