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

Increasingly, success depends not on who invents first, but on who can manufacture, deploy and scale those innovations most effectively. — Ariyan Kabir, Fortune, 8 Aug. 2026

Yet history reminds us that technological leadership is rarely determined solely by who invents it first. — Dewardric L. McNeal, CNBC, 2 Aug. 2026

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