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

1. transitive verb. To come or light upon; to meet; to find.
2. transitive 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.
3. transitive 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.
4. verb. come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort

   "excogitate a way to measure the speed of light"

   Synonyms: contrive, devise, excogitate, forge, formulate

5. verb. make up something artificial or untrue

   Synonyms: fabricate, manufacture

Synonyms

contrive, devise, excogitate, forge, formulate, fabricate, manufacture

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in invent:

ventin

Common word forms

invents, invented, inventer, inventful, inventing, inventable

Words from these letters

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