Synonyms of invokes

invokes

verb

present tense third-person singular of invoke

as in creates

to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind)

we should be prepared for the possibility that any solution may invoke another set of problems

Synonyms & Similar Words

• creates
• generates
• brings
• causes
• prompts
• does
• produces
• spawns
• induces
• works
• yields
• engenders
• makes
• catalyzes
• begets
• effectuates
• brings about
• gives rise to
• translates (into)
• occasions
• introduces
• effects
• draws on
• encourages
• results (in)
• promotes
• brings forth
• initiates
• brings on
• breeds
• establishes
• determines
• inaugurates
• contributes (to)
• begins
• launches
• founds
• enacts
• decides
• starts
• develops
• renders
• fosters
• cultivates
• conduces (to)
• furthers
• fathers
• nourishes
• institutes
• sets
• sets up
• nurtures
• turns out
• innovates
• advances
• pioneers
• forwards

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• restricts
• limits
• impedes
• suppresses
• inhibits
• represses
• subdues
• dampens
• controls
• stifles
• smothers
• crushes
• restrains
• checks
• reins (in)
• arrests
• squashes
• curbs
• kills
• puts down
• destroys
• quells
• retards
• quashes
• squelches
• abolishes
• extinguishes
• demolishes
• cracks down (on)
• clamps down (on)
• liquidates
• quenches
• cans
• stills
• snuffs (out)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of invokes

Exhibited for the first time outside of Sarajevo, the churning Socialist Realist homage invokes Eugène Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People in figuring partisans heroically overcoming their would-be Nazi aggressors. — Ara H. Merjian, ARTnews.com, 10 July 2026

Such a secret justification invokes for some former government lawyers a different series of memos written after 9/11. — Marie-Rose Sheinerman, The Atlantic, 6 July 2026

Big Red might be a braggart, a bully and rotten to the core, but Lasdun invokes Thomas De Quincey’s neat point about how a man’s capacity to rob says nothing about his propensity to murder. — Literary Hub, 25 June 2026

The pale beige brickwork that surrounds the home’s four fireplaces likewise invokes the dunes. — Sam Cochran, Architectural Digest, 25 June 2026

Companies may be loath to hire such workers if doing so invokes a $285 a month fee to the state per uninsured employee, as the Senate had at that time proposed. — Andrew Graham, Sacbee.com, 17 June 2026

One or both of them invokes the noble name of etiquette, claiming to be enforcing proper behavior. — Judith Martin, Mercury News, 16 June 2026

For hundreds of millions of soccer fans from across the world, seven FIFA World Cup games will be held in Miami — a name that invokes images of beaches, nightclubs and Latin culture. — Joshua Ceballos, Miami Herald, 10 June 2026

The historical record Barr invokes is sobering. — Mayra Rodriguez Valladares, Forbes.com, 6 June 2026