Antonyms for invent
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : in-vent |
| Phonetic Transcription : ɪnˈvɛnt |
Definition of invent
Origin :- late 15c., "find, discover," a back-formation from invention or else from Latin inventus, past participle of invenire "to come upon; devise, discover" (see invention). Meaning "make up, think up" is from 1530s, as is that of "produce by original thought." Related: Invented; inventing.
- verb create, think up
- verb fabricate
- I should be b-a-d, and I should sit up nights to invent new ways of evil.
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- I will move detachments and advance brigades, and invent strategy.
- Extract from : « In the Midst of Alarms » by Robert Barr
- What could she invent, so to be before him in giving her charity?
- Extract from : « The Dream » by Emile Zola
- "That's as good a description of him as you could invent," he said.
- Extract from : « The Foolish Lovers » by St. John G. Ervine
- A telegraph operator, in their eyes, has no business to invent.
- Extract from : « Heroes of the Telegraph » by J. Munro
- His efforts to invent had been ridiculed and discountenanced.
- Extract from : « Heroes of the Telegraph » by J. Munro
- With her appearance at C——-, commenced all that surmise could invent.
- Extract from : « Alice, or The Mysteries, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- It was necessary, then, to invent a motive to excuse his return to 9, Frognall Street.
- Extract from : « The Black Bag » by Louis Joseph Vance
- A man can be a worse hell to himself, than any hell they can invent to put him into.
- Extract from : « Hetty's Strange History » by Anonymous
- Why that fellow, Lewsome, can invent 'em for you by the score.
- Extract from : « Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit » by Charles Dickens
Synonyms for invent
- ad-lib
- author
- bear
- bring into being
- coin
- come up with
- come upon
- compose
- conceive
- concoct
- conjure up
- contrive
- cook up
- create out of thin air
- design
- devise
- discover
- dream up
- envision
- equivocate
- execute
- fake
- falsify
- fashion
- feign
- fib
- find
- forge
- form
- formulate
- frame
- hatch
- imagine
- improve
- improvise
- inaugurate
- initiate
- jam
- knock off
- lie
- make
- make believe
- make up
- mint
- misrepresent
- misstate
- off-the-cuff
- originate
- plan
- pretend
- prevaricate
- produce
- project
- simulate
- tell a white lie
- tell untruth
- think up
- toss off
- trump up
- turn out
- vamp
- wing
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