Reverse Dictionary: INVENT

ADJECTIVES
► EXCOGITOUS inventive → 1646 obs.
► NOVITIOUS newly invented, of recent origin, new → 1659 obs.
► VAMPED-UP of a story, etc.: invented, fabricated, trumped up → 1802-12

NOUNS
► BABY a person’s invention or achievement → 1890
► BRAINCHILD an idea or invention that is the creation of a particular person, organization, etc. → 1631
► BRAIN TRICK a clever invention or stratagem → 1604 obs.
► FANGLEMENT something fashioned or made; an invention; a contrivance → a1670
► FRIM-FRAM a trifle, a whim, a fancy, an invention → 1847 Sc.
► GAG a falsehood, a lie, an invention, a story → 1805 sl.
► INGENY an invention; a clever contrivance → 1588 obs.
► NEW FANGLE a new fashion or crotchet; a novelty, a new invention; always used in a contemptuous sense → 1548
► POLYMECHANY invention → 1592 obs.
► UP-MAKE a contrivance; an invention; a fabrication; an original composition → 1804 Sc.

NOUNS – PERSON
► CONCEITER a person who imagines or conceives of something; an inventor → 1603 arch.
► INVENTRICE a female inventor → 1509 obs.

VERBS
► BEFIND to invent, to contrive → 1297 obs.
► FABULATE to invent, concoct, fabricate → 1856
► FABULIZE to concoct, to invent → 1633 obs.
► INVENTION to invent → 1884 N. Ireland