Reverse Dictionary: INVENT

ADJECTIVES
► COINED fabricated, made up, deliberately invented → 1582
► COMMENTITIOUS of feigned or invented sort; fictitious → 1615 obs.
► CREATIVE inventive, imaginative → 1729
► DEVICEFUL characterized by device, ingenuity or invention → 1590
► EXCOGITOUS inventive → 1646 obs.
► FEIGNED fictitiously invented or devised → 1374 arch.
► FEIGNING given to inventing; imaginative → 1483 obs.
► FERTILE-BRAINED having many ideas; creative, inventive, imaginative → 1787
► FERTILE-HEADED having many ideas; creative, inventive, imaginative → 1754
► FORGED fabricated, made up, invented → 1500 obs.
► FORGETIVE inventive, creative → 1814
► HEURETIC relating to discovery or invention → 1678
► INFERTILE not creative or inventive; having few ideas → 1629
► INGENIARY exercising intellectual skill or contrivance; inventive, as distinguished from operative → 1664 obs.
► INGENIOUS having an aptitude for invention; clever at contriving or making things → 1576
► INVENTATIVE inventive → 1541 obs.
► INVENTFUL full of invention; showing inventiveness → 1797
► INVENTIONAL of the nature of invention → 1900
► INVENTIOUS inventive; showing a power of invention → 1591 obs.
► NEW-COINED newly made or invented → 1593
► NEW DEVISED newly contrived or invented → 1548
► NEWFANGLED newly or recently invented or existent → 1531
► NEW-FASHIONED of recent invention → 1574
► NEW-FOUND newly or recently invented or found → 1425
► NEW-INVENTED newly invented or devised → 1548
► NOVITIOUS newly invented, of recent origin, new → 1659 obs.
► ORIGINATIVE creative, inventive, productive → 1811
► OWN-INVENTED invented by oneself → 1631 obs.
► PREGNANT of a person or the mind: imaginative, inventive → 1475
► SELF-DEVISED devised or invented by oneself → 1608
► VAMPED-UP of a story, etc.: invented, fabricated, trumped up → 1802-12
► WELL-CONCEITED displaying great imagination or invention → 1598 obs.
► WELL-FORGED of a lie, story, etc.: artfully invented, devised or fabricated → 1561 obs.

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.
► CHINDOGU an invention that is usually innovative and ingenious, but is of little use in the real world, often created for fun rather than for practical purposes → 1992 chiefly Japanese context
► COINAGE that which is devised or invented; an invention → 1604
► COMMENTATION invention, devising → 1652 obs.
► CONTRIVANCE an inventing or making with thought and skill; invention → 1699
► DEVICE a devising, contriving, or planning; inventive faculty; invention, ingenuity → 1400 arch.
► DEVILMENT a devilishly cunning invention → 1791
► DEVISAL a devising; contrivance, invention → 1856
► DREAM WORLD an invented or imagined place or state of existence → 1817
► EXCOGITATION a contrivance, an invention; a plan thought out → 1664
► FABULOUSNESS proneness to fiction or invention → 1611
► FANGLEMENT something fashioned or made; an invention; a contrivance → a1670
► FANTASY an ingenious, or fantastic invention or design → 1440
► FINCTION a fiction, invention → 1540 obs.
► FINDAL invention, an inventing or devising → a1000 obs.
► FINDING an inventing or devising; a device, invention → 1400 obs.
► FIRE creative inspiration or invention → 1400
► FORGERY invention, excogitation; fictitious invention → 1582
► FRIM-FRAM a trifle, a whim, a fancy, an invention → 1847 Sc.
► GAG a falsehood, a lie, an invention, a story → 1805 sl.
► HEURETIC the study or art of discovery and invention → 1794
► INGENUITY a capacity for invention; cleverness in contriving and making something → 1649
► INGENY an invention; a clever contrivance → 1588 obs.
► INVENTABILITY ► INVENTIBILITY capability of being invented; inventiveness → 1662 obs.
► NEW FANGLE a new fashion or crotchet; a novelty, a new invention → 1548 contemptuous usage
► POLYMECHANY invention → 1592 obs.
► UP-MAKE a contrivance; an invention; a fabrication; an original composition → 1804 Sc.
► WEEJEE ► WEJEE any clever invention → 1864 UK sl.

NOUNS – PERSON
► COINER an inventor, a fabricator → 1581
► COMMENTER an inventor, a concocter → 1645 obs.
► CONCEITER a person who imagines or conceives of something; an inventor → 1603 arch.
► DEVISER a contriver, an inventor, a schemer, etc. → 1523
► FABULIST a person who invents falsehoods → 1626
► FATHER an originator, inventor, or founder of something → a1000
► FEIGNER a constructor, an inventor → 1382 obs.
► FINDER a person who contrives or invents; an inventor, a deviser → 1400 obs.
► FORGER a fabricator or inventor of false stories, etc. → 1380
► FRAMER a creator; a contriver; an inventor → 1534
► IDEAS MAN a creative, inventive, or ingenious man; one who comes up with ideas → 1845
► INVENTIONER an inventor → 1612 obs.
► INVENTRESS a female inventor → 1586
► INVENTRICE a female inventor → 1509 obs.
► SEARCHERESS a female searcher; a female inventor → 1430 obs.

VERBS
► BEFIND to invent, to contrive → 1297 obs.
► COIN 1. to fabricate, to invent, to make up something pretentious or counterfeit → 1561
2. to invent a new word or phrase → 1589
► COMMENT to devise, contrive, or invent something, especially something false or bad → 1450 obs.
► CONTRIVE to make up, to invent, to fabricate, to concoct → 1400 obs.
► COOK UP to invent, to fabricate → 1748 UK sl.
► DISINVENT to undo the invention of → 1868
► DISSIMULE to invent, to make up falsely, to feign → 1483
► DREAM UP to invent, to make up, to imagine → 1941 US sl.
► ENFORGE to invent → 1440 obs.
► FABRICATE to invent or frame a lie, legend, etc. → 1779
► FABULATE to invent, concoct, fabricate → 1856
► FABULIZE to concoct, to invent → 1633 obs.
► FEIGN 1. to invent a story, excuse, etc. → 1297
► 2. to invent or coin a word → 1607 obs.
► FORGE to contrive, to devise, to invent → 1430 obs.
► FRAME a to devise, invent, or fabricate a story, rule, etc. → 1400
► IDEATE to devise or invent something imaginary → 1888
► IMPROVISATE to create, invent, or do something spontaneously, especially as a result of necessity → 1831 obs.
► INVENTION to invent → 1884 N. Ireland
► MACGYVER to construct or modify something in an inventive or improvised way → 1992 US colloq.
► PULL SOMETHING OUT OF ONE’S ASS to invent or produce something, as if by magic → 2003 US sl.
► STRIKE OUT to devise, to invent, to contrive → 1902 (Bk.)
► SUCK OUT OF ONE’S FINGER ENDS to invent or come up with something → 1540 obs.
► SUCK OUT OF ONE’S OWN FINGER to fabricate or invent something → 1538
► UPFIND to invent → 1440