invent

invent

verb

Definition of INVENT

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, construct, contrive, cook (up), devise, drum up, excogitate, fabricate, make up, manufacture, think (up), trump up, vamp (up)

Related Words coin, design, hatch, produce; daydream, dream, fantasize; conceive, envisage, envision, imagine, picture, vision, visualize; ad-lib, extemporize, improvise

Phrases come up with

Near Antonyms clone, copy, copycat, duplicate, imitate, mimic, reduplicate, replicate, reproduce