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

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

Ammons is accused of devising a scheme dating back to 2017 to defraud the state that included directing state and federal funds to organizations that then paid her daughter. — Olivia Olander, Chicago Tribune, 10 July 2026

After devising the Trojan horse and unleashing carnage on Troy, the melancholic Odysseus struggles to see good in the world. — Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 8 July 2026

But over the course of the next week, Nakase will be devising a plan to stop Reese. — Nathan Canilao, Mercury News, 25 June 2026

However, Solskjaer had spent that off-season devising how United would play with Sancho in an attacking unit alongside Marcus Rashford, Mason Greenwood, Edinson Cavani, Anthony Martial and Dan James, with the likes of Bruno Fernandes just behind. — Chris McKenna, New York Times, 11 June 2026

Working with industry qubits Imec’s genius is not in devising a new kind of qubit but in using one that’s the easiest to scale. — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 26 May 2026