Synonyms of devising

devising

verb

present participle of devise

as in concocting

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

• concocting
• constructing
• inventing
• designing
• producing
• manufacturing
• contriving
• thinking (up)
• hatching
• conceiving
• coming up with
• cooking (up)
• fabricating
• imagining
• excogitating
• drumming up
• envisioning
• making up
• improvising
• visualizing
• dreaming
• coining
• trumping up
• vamping (up)
• envisaging
• fantasizing
• daydreaming
• visioning
• extemporizing
• picturing
• ad-libbing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• reproducing
• duplicating
• imitating
• copying
• mimicking
• replicating
• cloning
• reduplicating
• copycatting

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of devising

Now, researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have thwarted that tyranny even more profoundly, by devising an ultra-fast way to steer light, using light itself as the steering wheel. — New Atlas, 20 Aug. 2026

Now Iran’s hardline leadership is devising and promoting its own strategy for continued confrontation with Washington. — Tim Lister, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2026

With troops largely bogged down by drones and robots along the roughly 780-mile front line, both Russia and Ukraine are expanding their aerial campaigns and devising new long-range weapons. — Hanna Arhirova, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2026

With troops largely bogged down by drones and robots along the roughly 1,250-kilometer (780-mile) front line, both Russia and Ukraine are expanding their aerial campaigns and devising new long-range weapons. — ABC News, 17 Aug. 2026

Sarah Sherman Samuel is known for devising furniture worthy of an art show, and the Lulu and Georgia Hamilton sideboard is no exception. — Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 24 July 2026

Ten years on, after devising the victorious Trojan Horse gambit, Ulysses attempts to return to Ithaca and the pining Penelope, whose palace has been overrun with scheming suitors seeking her hand. — Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor, 16 July 2026

Feynman was a graduate student there at the time and threw himself into the debate with gusto, even devising an experiment in the cyclotron laboratory to test his hypothesis. — Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 13 July 2026

Amid this growth, banks continue to spend enormous sums to protect the savings of their customers from all manner of fraudsters intent on devising ways to separate Americans from their savings. — John Tamny, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026