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ɪnˈvɛntin·vent

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Wiktionary0.0 / 0 votes

  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

English Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  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

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms5.0 / 1 vote

  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 WordNet2.5 / 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

Editors Contribution5.0 / 1 vote

  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 Synonymes1.0 / 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

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "invent":

    inventing, reinvent, devise, re-invent, fabricate

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How to use invent in a sentence?

  1. Whoopi Goldberg:

    Maybe one day they'll make a movie about a skinny white lady who invented a mop. ... Of course a black girl would have to invent the cure for cancer before they even give her a TV movie.

  2. Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire:

    If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does exist that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it.

  3. Abraham Lincoln:

    It is said an eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him with the words, 'And this, too, shall pass away.' How much it expresses How chastening in the hour of pride How consoling in the depths of affliction

  4. Scott Morrison:

    A stronger economy where people have the confidence to invest more, to employ more, to invent more, to work hard.

  5. Klaus Froehlich:

    It is to push technology forward and to set standards already in generation two vehicles, and not just in generation four. We do not want to waste resources, we should not invent this complicated wheel twice. On the path to setting these standards, it makes sense to share some of these investments.


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