Word Meaning

invent definition and meaning

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

Crossword clues for invent

- Conceive, originate
- Create or devise
- Create with imagination
- Create, devise
- Devise something new
- Make up
- Originate
- Think up
- Wing it