Antonyms for invention
ɪnˈvɛn ʃənin·ven·tion

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:3.7 / 6 votes

1. inventionnoun

   Synonyms:
   discovery

2. inventionnoun

   Something invented.

   Synonyms:
   discovery

3. inventionnoun

   The act of inventing.

   The invention of the printing press was probably the most significant innovation of the medieval ages.

   Synonyms:
   discovery

4. inventionnoun

   The capacity to invent.

   It took quite a bit of invention to come up with a plan, but we did it.

   Synonyms:
   discovery

5. inventionnoun

   A small, self-contained composition, particularly those in J.S. Bach’s Two- and Three-part Inventions.

   I particularly like the inventions in C-minor.

   Synonyms:
   discovery

6. inventionnoun

   The act of discovering or finding; the act of finding out; discovery.

   That judicial method which serveth best for the invention of truth.

   Synonyms:
   discovery

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. invention

   A contrivance or device may be either good or bad. A cheat is a mean advantage in a bargain; a fraud, any form of covert robbery or injury. Imposture is a deceitful contrivance for securing charity, credit, or consideration. A stratagem or maneuver may be of the good against the bad, as it were a skilful movement of war. A wile is usually but not necessarily evil.

   E'en children followed with endearing wile.

   Goldsmith Deserted Village, l. 184.

   A trick is often low, injurious, and malicious; we say a mean trick; the word is sometimes used playfully with less than its full meaning. A ruse or a blind may be quite innocent and harmless. An artifice is a carefully and delicately prepared contrivance for doing indirectly what one could not well do directly. A device is something studied out for promoting an end, as in a mechanism; the word is used of indirect action, often, but not necessarily directed to an evil, selfish, or injurious end. Finesse is especially subtle contrivance, delicate artifice, whether for good or evil. Compare FRAUD.

   Antonyms:
   artlessness, candor, fairness, frankness, guilelessness, honesty, ingenuousness, innocence, openness, simplicity, sincerity, truth

   Synonyms:
   art, artifice, blind, cheat, contrivance, craft, cunning, device, dodge, finesse, fraud, guile, imposture, machination, maneuver, ruse, stratagem, subterfuge, trick, wile

Matched Categories

1. • Creating By Mental Acts
   • Creation
   • Creativity

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:2.7 / 3 votes

1. invention, innovation, excogitation, conception, designnoun

   the creation of something in the mind

   Synonyms:
   intention, foundation, initiation, instauration, design, introduction, construct, designing, figure, creation, plan, excogitation, conception, aim, intent, blueprint, institution, founding, innovation, pattern, origination, concept, purpose

2. invention, innovationnoun

   a creation (a new device or process) resulting from study and experimentation

   Synonyms:
   origination, excogitation, innovation, founding, foundation, instauration, creation, institution, design, initiation, introduction, conception

3. inventionnoun

   the act of inventing

   Synonyms:
   design, conception, innovation, excogitation

How to use invention in a sentence?

1. Vanna Bonta:

   Money is only a human invention.

2. Author Unknown:

   A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner, neither do uninterrupted prosperity and success qualify for usefulness and happiness. The storms of adversity, like those of the ocean, rouse the faculties, and excite the invention, prudence, skill and fortitude or the voyager. The martyrs of ancient times, in bracing their minds to outward calamities, acquired a loftiness of purpose and a moral heroism worth a lifetime of softness and security.

3. Larry Finlay:

   As all who read him know, Discworld was his vehicle to satirize this world. He did so brilliantly, with great skill, enormous humor and constant invention.

4. Vanna Bonta:

   Money is only a human invention. I get paid for my work, it's a system of trade, but it's not my purpose and reason for living.

5. Thorsten J. Pattberg:

   A Greek invention, democracy is highly overrated. For starters, it never worked in Greece. The first philosophers were fascists and, even today, 2,500 years later, the 'cradle of Western civilization' remains an incompetent state. Roman emperors and a vengeful, authoritarian God are the true European success stories.

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