Entry Word: invent

Function: verb

Meaning: to create or think of by clever use of the imagination <they invented an explanation for the broken vase that would satisfy their grandmother>

Synonyms concoct, contrive, cook (up), devise, fabricate, make up, manufacture, think (up)

Related Words coin, contrive, create, design, hatch, produce; daydream, dream, fantasize; conceive, envisage, imagine, picture, visualize

Near Antonyms copy, duplicate, imitate, mimic, replicate