Synonyms of concocted

concocted 1 of 2

adjective

as in manufactured

Related Words

• manufactured
• contrived
• fabricated
• labored
• canned
• assumed
• unrealistic
• simulated
• unreal
• automatic
• mock
• bogus
• feigned
• strained
• pseudo
• pat
• spurious
• forced
• phony
• exaggerated
• artificial
• plastic
• fake
• mechanical
• factitious
• sham
• unnatural
• hollow
• hokey
• affected
• pretended
• hypocritical
• false
• facile
• unauthentic
• put-on
• insincere
• unctuous
• theatrical
• melodramatic
• empty
• mealymouthed
• mealy
• calculated
• two-faced
• histrionic
• premeditated
• cultivated
• stylized
• wooden
• double-dealing
• deliberate
• conventional
• studied
• cute
• overdone
• overacted
• left-handed
• conscious
• cutesy
• impersonal
• formal
• genteel
• artful
• mincing
• rigid
• overrefined
• simpering
• inflexible
• goody-goody
• stiff

Dissimilar Words

• spontaneous
• real
• genuine
• natural
• true
• unaffected
• authentic
• realistic
• artless
• bona fide
• right
• ingenuous
• easy
• honest
• sincere
• uncontrived
• unforced
• unfeigned
• smooth
• impromptu
• unconscious
• effortless
• instinctive
• extemporaneous
• impulsive
• unpretending
• unstudied
• unrehearsed
• unprompted

concocted

2 of 2

verb

past tense of concoct

as in devised

to create or think of by clever use of the imagination

trying to concoct an explanation for how the lamp got broken by itself

Synonyms & Similar Words

• devised
• constructed
• invented
• designed
• manufactured
• produced
• contrived
• thought (up)
• hatched
• fabricated
• came up with
• conceived
• cooked (up)
• made up
• excogitated
• trumped up
• envisioned
• dreamed
• imagined
• drummed up
• vamped (up)
• coined
• visualized
• improvised
• fantasized
• envisaged
• daydreamed
• visioned
• extemporized
• pictured
• ad-libbed

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• copied
• reproduced
• duplicated
• replicated
• mimicked
• cloned
• imitated
• copycatted
• reduplicated

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of concocted

Adjective

On the eve of our nation’s Independence Day, Americans should be deeply concerned by the misuse of government power against an ordinary citizen based on a concocted narrative. — Jasmine Baehr , Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 2 July 2026

So is the neighbor who was pressured by police to corroborate a concocted story. — Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 31 Jan. 2026

Verb

Seymour’s game really began to unravel at the top of the week, when Devens and Murray initially concocted a plan to send him packing after being fearful of his ability to bring the other side of the house together. — Brenton Blanchet, PEOPLE, 24 July 2026

Tran says the hairstyle was concocted with Liu's outfit in mind, not to mention her overall vibe. — Marci Robin, Allure, 16 July 2026

Similarly, the EastDiet hasn't been concocted by nutritionists in a lab; instead, it's been shaped by local, natural resources. — New Atlas, 15 July 2026

Dishes are concocted Chipotle-style, by ordering at the assembly-line-style counter. — Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 10 July 2026

In The Beauty, Ryan Murphy and co-creator Matthew Hodgson have concocted a genre-hopping oddity that sounds unlikely to work. — Judy Berman, Time, 8 July 2026

In 1949, a Nebraska plumbing contractor named Steve Henson was working in Anchorage, Alaska and concocted a salad dressing out of buttermilk, mayonnaise, and herbs to help feed his crew on remote job sites. — Scott Simon, NPR, 27 June 2026

In the one that opens the film, Forky (Tony Hale), the googly-eyed spork, marries a plastic knife called Karen Beverly (Melissa Villaseñor), a name so perfectly unmelodious that only a kid, or an adult exceptionally good at thinking like one, could have concocted it. — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2026

Every detail is accurate, though the picture as a whole is an invention, concocted from multiple views, locations, and studies. — Susan Tallman, The Atlantic, 13 June 2026