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

Davis’s Friday ruling means the government must now disclose who devised the fund’s structure, but the information will not necessarily be made available to the public. — Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2026

Engineers devised a lower-thrust trajectory that saved BepiColombo's mission but delayed its Mercury arrival from December 2025 to November 2026. — Josh Dinner, Space.com, 3 Sep. 2026

The researchers in China instead devised a way to greatly expand the bandwidth of quantum networks. — IEEE Spectrum, 2 Sep. 2026

And Marks, eager to create an itinerary that would be perfect for the Princess of Wales, devised a multi-day trip to Northern Italy for the women to take at the end of August. — Allie Merriam, Vanity Fair, 1 Sep. 2026

The sibling drama, meanwhile, rather fades out of view amid these loftier goings-on; the film’s narrative begins to feel devised by the old parlor game Consequences, repeatedly wrenched in erratic new directions. — Guy Lodge, Variety, 31 Aug. 2026

Or, even better, a cocktail devised by the famed barman Frank Meier, a historical figure who is central to the novel. — David Denby, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026

To create objects with collapsibility as a core feature, Toyonaga’s team devised an analytic design algorithm allowing incremental construction of complex scissored surfaces. — New Atlas, 29 Aug. 2026

Then, in a famous 1937 paper, the mathematician Alan Turing devised a model based on hypothetical machines that could read and write symbols printed on an infinite tape according to a set of simple rules. — Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 28 Aug. 2026