Synonyms of inventing

inventing

verb

present participle of invent

as in devising

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

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of inventing

His great-great-grandfather, Antonio Cansino, was widely credited with inventing modern-day Spanish dance. — Hannah Vanbiber, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2026

Whether inventing the Bong-a-Tron or freeing themselves after hours trapped inside a Party City parking lot, these misadventures almost always hinge on weed. — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 12 Aug. 2026

However, blaming regional choice programs for district deficits or inventing narratives about wealthy RESCs will not hire a teacher, fix a roof, or improve a reading score. — Leonard Lockhart, Hartford Courant, 9 Aug. 2026

Much of the sector’s value creation came not from inventing a superior solar panel, but from figuring out customer acquisition, installation, asset financing and long-term ownership. — Rob Day, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026

Aguilar has been inventing these sorts of basic, accessible, potentially endless series for years. — Lori Waxman, Chicago Tribune, 5 Aug. 2026

Through the mid-1980s, Wolfram continued this work, discovering a number of fundamental connections between computation and nature, and inventing such concepts as computational irreducibility. — Big Think, 4 Aug. 2026

Rent the Runway was a media darling—a necessity for a consumer brand that was inventing the new category of clothing rental and had to persuade women to try it out. — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 29 July 2026

The brand is renowned for inventing the luxury SUV category in the 1970s with its original boxy, elevated, high-end off-roader. — New Atlas, 27 July 2026