Synonyms of devised

devised

verb

past tense of devise

as in concocted

to create or think of by clever use of the imagination

she quickly devised a new scheme when the first one failed

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of devised

But state and local planners devised a way to answer commuter’s growing concerns by converting Independence into a freeway. — Dj Simmons, Charlotte Observer, 15 Aug. 2026

Once citizenship at birth begins turning on categories devised by executive officials, the certainty the 14th Amendment was intended to establish starts to disappear. — Andy J. Semotiuk, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2026

Advertisement As Claude began completing such tasks too reliably to reveal much, Freeman devised a test closer to the messiness of the real world. — Harry Booth, Time, 7 Aug. 2026

What subterfuge has the author devised within a sentence, and what chills of humor or irony will run across its surface as the subterfuge is discovered? — Sabrina Jaszi, The Dial, 4 Aug. 2026

Still eager to formally declare their commitment to one another, the bride and groom devised another plan. — Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 4 Aug. 2026

Pfleumer devised a less expensive process using powdered bronze to simulate the gold band. — IEEE Spectrum, 2 Aug. 2026

So the study’s authors, led by Tuhin Chakrabarty, a professor of computer science at Stony Brook University, devised another check. — Will Oremus, The Atlantic, 27 July 2026

David Paul Morris | Getty Images Amazon and Microsoft have devised new ways to get people playing video games in the cloud. — Jordan Novet,annie Palmer, CNBC, 23 July 2026