brainstorm
I couldn't understand any of it, but then I had a brainstorm.
The idea for the book came when she had a brainstorm while she was out hiking.
Oh dear, I think they had a brainstorm when they designed this car.
We didn't know whether he'd got the time wrong, or whether he'd just had a brainstorm.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Ideas, concepts and theories
abstract
abstraction
accepted wisdom
afterthought
anthropocentrism
Darwinism
Darwinist
determinist
Dianetics
motif
musings
natalism
non-dogmatic
non-empirical
sacred cow
social Darwinism
straw man
supersensible
tenet
the domino theory
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:
Confusion, confusing and feeling confused