Synonyms of invented

invented 1 of 2

adjective

as in fictitious

not real and existing only in the imagination

a daydreamer who lives mostly in her invented magic kingdom

Synonyms & Similar Words

• fictitious
• fictional
• imaginary
• imagined
• mythical
• fantasied
• imaginal
• ideal
• phantom
• pretend
• make-believe
• fanciful
• unreal
• chimerical
• legendary
• fantastic
• made-up
• visionary
• fabulous
• theoretical
• notional
• unlikely
• phantasmal
• conceived
• fabled
• romantic
• envisioned
• phantasmic
• hypothetical
• concocted
• visualized
• abstract
• unbelievable
• envisaged
• deceptive
• pictured
• fabricated
• unconvincing
• illusory
• fictive
• nonexistent
• hallucinatory
• delusive
• phantasmagoric
• feigned
• delusional
• daydreamlike
• inexistent

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• real
• actual
• existing
• true
• existent
• authentic
• genuine
• verifiable
• factual
• convincing
• realistic
• physical
• solid
• substantial
• believable
• verified
• material
• corporeal
• tangible
• palpable

invented

2 of 2

verb

past tense of invent

as in devised

to create or think of by clever use of the imagination

they invented an explanation for the broken vase that would satisfy their grandmother

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of invented

Verb

One thing that really struck me in that Postman book was that before radio and television was invented, there was no way to be a reader, because there was no way to not be a reader. — Hanna Rosin, The Atlantic, 23 July 2026

Bungling comic book store owner Stuart Bloom (Kevin Sussman) creates global Armageddon-like havoc by breaking a device invented by Sheldon and Leonard, neither of whom appear in the series. — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 23 July 2026

Skubal’s energy and edge are tools, sharpened over the years and ready to deploy against slights real or invented. — Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 22 July 2026

It was invented at a whiteboard, assumed from a handful of conversations, or inferred from the founder's own experience and never checked against the people supposed to feel it. — Paul Evans, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026

The cannibalistic Laestrygonians become towering armored warriors, while other episodes are combined or radically re-imagined, with characters and storylines invented from whole cloth. — Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2026

An England triumph would have put the nation that invented modern football in position to win its first World Cup since ever-distant 1966. — Miami Herald, 16 July 2026

Aston Martin has invented a fantasy concept military SUV for Call of Duty. — Adam Ismail, The Drive, 16 July 2026

But when certainty is the one thing nobody can honestly offer, certainty gets invented. — Katrine Wallace, STAT, 15 July 2026