Synonyms of invents

invents

verb

present tense third-person singular of invent

as in devises

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

• devises
• concocts
• constructs
• manufactures
• designs
• produces
• contrives
• fabricates
• comes up with
• conceives
• thinks (up)
• imagines
• envisions
• cooks (up)
• hatches
• improvises
• makes up
• visualizes
• excogitates
• drums up
• fantasizes
• trumps up
• envisages
• vamps (up)
• dreams
• visions
• coins
• daydreams
• extemporizes
• pictures
• ad-libs

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• imitates
• reproduces
• mimics
• replicates
• copies
• clones
• duplicates
• reduplicates
• copycats

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of invents

The ingenious Professor Farnsworth invents a machine that can swap the minds of two people. — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 21 July 2026

Rather than shattering the illusion, the heroine invents an increasingly elaborate fictional life to protect her mother — and, ultimately, herself. — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 21 July 2026

An engineering prodigy, Harley has to get creative to survive her large family, and invents a number of gizmos and gadgets to help improve her chaotic household. — Christian Holub, Entertainment Weekly, 21 June 2026

Without it, the AI invents a new backdrop. — Erica Browne Grivas, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 June 2026

For a few minutes, nobody cared that this team is an expensive, disjointed, underperforming, charisma-free mess that invents ways to lose. — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 11 June 2026

That kind of popularity and radiant goodness produces a lineage of artists but doesn’t have the crowd appeal of a lone genius who invents a flying machine or pulls a seventeen-foot sculpture out of a block of marble. — Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026

Rather than reproducing Monroe’s public mythology, Oates invents a fictional interior life for Norma Jeane Baker, exploring the psychological cost of becoming a cultural icon. — Literary Hub, 15 Apr. 2026

And what if man invents a way to take carbon out of the air, with some sort of machine? — Arkansas Online, 19 Mar. 2026