Synonyms for invent
ɪnˈvɛntin·vent

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1. inventverb

   Synonyms:
   discover, fangle

2. inventverb

   To design a new process or mechanism.

   After weeks of hard work, I invented a new way to alphabetize matchbooks.

   Synonyms:
   fangle, discover

3. inventverb

   To create something fictional for a particular purpose.

   Synonyms:
   fangle, discover

4. inventverb

   To come upon; to find; to find out; to discover.

   Synonyms:
   fangle, discover

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1. invent

   Of human actions or character, detect is used, almost without exception, in a bad sense; discover may be used in either the good or the bad sense, oftener in the good; he was detected in a fraud; real merit is sure to be discovered. In scientific language, detect is used of delicate indications that appear in course of careful watching; as, a slight fluttering of the pulse could be detected. We discover what has existed but has not been known to us; we invent combinations or arrangements not before in use; Columbus discovered America; Morse invented the electric telegraph. Find is the most general word for every means of coming to know what was not before certainly known. A man finds in the road some stranger's purse, or finds his own which he is searching for. The expert discovers or detects an error in an account; the auditor finds the account to be correct. Compare DISCERN.

   See synonyms for HIDE.

   Synonyms:
   ascertain, descry, detect, discern, disclose, discover, expose, ferret out, find, find out

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1. invent

   Synonyms:
   discover, contrive, concoct, imagine, elaborate, conceive, design, devise, fabricate, originate, find out, frame, forge, feign

   Antonyms:
   imitate, copy, execute, reproduce

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1. invent, contrive, devise, excogitate, formulate, forgeverb

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

   "excogitate a way to measure the speed of light"

   Synonyms:
   excogitate, ruminate, work, fake, prepare, make up, develop, contemplate, muse, get up, organize, fabricate, forge, plan, speculate, throw, cast, mull over, think over, form, mould, word, manufacture, mull, explicate, reflect, fashion, articulate, spirt, cook up, organise, meditate, hammer, counterfeit, chew over, contrive, shape, phrase, ponder, spurt, give voice, formulate, project, design, machinate, devise, mold

2. fabricate, manufacture, cook up, make up, inventverb

   make up something artificial or untrue

   Synonyms:
   conciliate, even off, excogitate, concoct, counterbalance, be, represent, comprise, pay, even out, settle, catch up with, manufacture, correct, pay off, devise, construct, even up, contrive, compensate, make up, forge, cook up, fabricate, patch up, reconcile, formulate, make, constitute

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1. innovate

   make something that's new

   he's very creative. he likes to invent .

   Submitted by JP03 on October 26, 2014  

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. inventverb

   Synonyms:
   contrive (what did not before exist), devise, be the first to contrive or devise

2. inventverb

   Synonyms:
   originate, frame, imagine, conceive, concoct

3. inventverb

   Synonyms:
   fabricate, forge, coin

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1. List of paraphrases for "invent":

   inventing, reinvent, devise, re-invent, fabricate

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1. Thomas Alva Edison:

   To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

2. Saki:

   He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it.

3. Abraham Lincoln:

   It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words And this, too, shall pass away.

4. Antonin Artaud:

   There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of folly, they will invent ten thousand others. They will create subtler, wilder methods, methods that are absolutely DESPERATE. Nature herself is fundamentally antisocial, it is only by a usurpation of powers that the organized body of society opposes the natural inclination of humanity.

5. Randy Credico:

   He's retroactively trying to invent something to cover his a --.