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

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:2.5 / 2 votes

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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How to use invent in a sentence?

1. Amber Mitchell:

   We just thought there has to be some way that we can still celebrate him in a way that is safe but also gets more people involved, if we aren't able to gather in ways that we're used to, we can always invent new ways to connect or rediscover old ways, like you would with a birthday card.

2. Leonard Garfield:

   There’s always someone in Great Seattle who can do Great Seattle a little bit better, we do n’t necessarily invent things – we make things better.

3. Amber Mitchell:

   If we aren't able to gather in ways that we're used to, we can always invent new ways to connect or rediscover old ways, like you would with a birthday card.

4. Friedrich Nietzsche:

   Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs He alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

5. Meng Wanzhou:

   The timing of my retirement will depend on when Google can invent a new medicine that will allow people to live forever. I'm waiting for that medicine.