Dictionary Entry
invent
invent is a 6-letter English word with 5 senses as transitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To come or light upon; to meet; to find. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 12 · 5 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To come or light upon; to meet; to find.
- 2transitive verb
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.
- 3transitive verb
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.
- 4verb
come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort
"excogitate a way to measure the speed of light"
- 5verb
make up something artificial or untrue
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