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Synonyms for invention
ɪnˈvɛn ʃənin·ven·tion
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Wiktionary
inventionnoun
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discoveryinventionnoun
Something invented.
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discoveryinventionnoun
The act of inventing.
The invention of the printing press was probably the most significant innovation of the medieval ages.
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discoveryinventionnoun
The capacity to invent.
It took quite a bit of invention to come up with a plan, but we did it.
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discoveryinventionnoun
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.
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discoveryinventionnoun
The act of discovering or finding; the act of finding out; discovery.
That judicial method which serveth best for the invention of truth.
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discovery
English Synonyms and Antonyms
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.
Synonyms:
art, artifice, blind, cheat, contrivance, craft, cunning, device, dodge, finesse, fraud, guile, imposture, machination, maneuver, ruse, stratagem, subterfuge, trick, wileAntonyms:
artlessness, candor, fairness, frankness, guilelessness, honesty, ingenuousness, innocence, openness, simplicity, sincerity, truth
Princeton's WordNet
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, purposeinvention, innovationnoun
a creation (a new device or process) resulting from study and experimentation
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origination, excogitation, innovation, founding, foundation, instauration, creation, institution, design, initiation, introduction, conceptioninventionnoun
the act of inventing
Synonyms:
design, conception, innovation, excogitation
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
inventionnoun
Synonyms:
inventing, origination, creationinventionnoun
Synonyms:
contrivance, device, designinventionnoun
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ingenuity, power of inventinginventionnoun
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fabrication, forgery, fiction, coinage
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "invention":
inventions, inventive, inventiveness, brainchild, fabrication, contrivance, inventor
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Words popularity by usage frequency
| ranking | word | |
|---|---|---|
| #245 | design | |
| #338 | art | |
| #480 | plan | |
| #958 | figure | |
| #1250 | foundation | |
| #1258 | purpose | |
| #1338 | introduction | |
| #1634 | device | |
| #2357 | pattern | |
| #2511 | concept | |
| #2710 | creation | |
| #2751 | aim | |
| #3146 | institution | |
| #3349 | discovery | |
| #3936 | innovation | |
| #4241 | craft | |
| #4246 | blind | |
| #4480 | fraud | |
| #4626 | dodge | |
| #5534 | intent | |
| #6230 | cheat | |
| #6425 | designing | |
| #7004 | construct | |
| #7155 | invention | |
| #7167 | trick | |
| #7295 | intention | |
| #10367 | founding | |
| #11830 | initiation | |
| #11984 | inventor | |
| #12211 | conception | |
| #12310 | fabrication | |
| #16458 | blueprint | |
| #17592 | inventions | |
| #23550 | maneuver | |
| #25925 | guile | |
| #26623 | cunning | |
| #26871 | inventive | |
| #27200 | origination | |
| #35918 | finesse | |
| #43818 | ruse | |
| #45134 | artifice | |
| #55821 | brainchild | |
| #63007 | wile | |
| #79016 | subterfuge | |
| #80138 | inventiveness | |
| #87541 | contrivance | |
| #98243 | stratagem | |
| #183563 | imposture | |
| #286612 | machination |
How to use invention in a sentence?
Frustration is the seedbed of creativity,invention and ultimately progress.
Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.
Prosecutors and magistrates have pressured and intimidated Brazils Supreme Court recently. That game is being played, it is a judicial invention that could cost all sides dearly.
Home is an invention on which no one has yet improved.
It's an incredible invention.
Translations for invention
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- uitvindingAfrikaans
- اختراعArabic
- ixtiraAzerbaijani
- вынаходстваBelarusian
- изобретениеBulgarian
- আবিষ্কারBengali
- invencióCatalan, Valencian
- vynálezCzech
- opfindelseDanish
- Erfindung, Einfallsreichtum, Erfinden, InventionGerman
- εφεύρεσηGreek
- inventoEsperanto
- invenciónSpanish
- leiutisEstonian
- اختراعPersian
- kekseliäisyys, inventio, keksiminen, keksintöFinnish
- inventionFrench
- aireagánIrish
- invento, invenciónGalician
- הַמְצָאָהHebrew
- आविष्कारHindi
- találmányHungarian
- գյուտArmenian
- uppfinningIcelandic
- inventione, invenzioneItalian
- 発明, インベンションJapanese
- გამოგონებისაGeorgian
- ប្រឌិត, ការប្រឌិតKhmer
- 發明, 발명Korean
- išradimasLithuanian
- izgudrojumsLatvian
- пронајдок, изумMacedonian
- invenzjoniMaltese
- oppfinnelseNorwegian
- uitvindingDutch
- wynalazekPolish
- invençãoPortuguese
- invenții, invențieRomanian
- инвенция, изобретательность, изобретениеRussian
- изум, izumSerbo-Croatian
- vynálezSlovak
- izumSlovene
- shpikjeAlbanian
- uppfinning, inventionSwedish
- imbensiyonTagalog
- buluş, icatTurkish
- винахідUkrainian
- 發明, phát minhVietnamese
- datuvotVolapük
- 发明Chinese
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