Canadian English Meaning of invent

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Definitions and Meaning of invent in English

Wordnet

invent (v)

come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort

concoct something artificial or untrue

Webster

invent (v. t.)

To come or light upon; to meet; to find.

To discover, as by study or inquiry; to find out; to devise; to contrive or produce for the first time; -- applied commonly to the discovery of some serviceable mode, instrument, or machine.

To frame by the imagination; to fabricate mentally; to forge; -- in a good or a bad sense; as, to invent the machinery of a poem; to invent a falsehood.

FAQs About the word invent

invent

come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort, concoct something artificial or untrueTo come or light upon; to meet; to

concoct,construct,devise,come up with,contrive,design,fabricate,Manufacture,Produce,think (up)

clone,Copy,duplicate,imitate,mimic,replicate,reproduce,copycat,duplicate

invendible => Unsaleable, invendibility => Unsalability, inveil => unveil, inveigling => enticing, inveigler => entice,