invent
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1. come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort (verb.creation)
hypernym | : | create by mental act, create mentally, |
definition | : | create mentally and abstractly rather than with one's hands (verb.creation) |
2. make up something artificial or untrue (verb.creation)
hyponym | : | mythologise, mythologize, |
definition | : | construct a myth (verb.creation) |
hyponym | : | confabulate, |
definition | : | unconsciously replace fact with fantasy in one's memory (verb.creation) |
hyponym | : | spin, |
definition | : | make up a story (verb.creation) |
3. come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort (verb.creation)
derivation | : | devising, fashioning, making, |
definition | : | the act that results in something coming to be (noun.act) |
derivation | : | invention, |
definition | : | the act of inventing (noun.act) |
derivation | : | contrivance, devisal, |
definition | : | the act of devising something (noun.act) |
derivation | : | conceptualisation, conceptualization, formulation, |
definition | : | inventing or contriving an idea or explanation and formulating it mentally (noun.act) |
derivation | : | conception, design, excogitation, innovation, invention, |
definition | : | the creation of something in the mind (noun.cognition) |
derivation | : | excogitation, |
definition | : | thinking something out with care in order to achieve complete understanding of it (noun.cognition) |
derivation | : | formula, |
definition | : | a conventionalized statement expressing some fundamental principle (noun.communication) |
derivation | : | excogitator, |
definition | : | a thinker who considers carefully and thoroughly (noun.person) |
derivation | : | artificer, discoverer, inventor, |
definition | : | someone who is the first to think of or make something (noun.person) |
derivation | : | imaginative, inventive, |
definition | : | (used of persons or artifacts) marked by independence and creativity in thought or action (adj.all) |
4. make up something artificial or untrue (verb.creation)
derivation | : | fabrication, fictionalisation, fictionalization, |
definition | : | writing in a fictional form (noun.act) |
derivation | : | invention, |
definition | : | the act of inventing (noun.act) |
derivation | : | fable, fabrication, fiction, |
definition | : | a deliberately false or improbable account (noun.communication) |
derivation | : | fabricator, fibber, storyteller, |
definition | : | someone who tells lies (noun.person) |
5. come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort (verb.creation)
derivation | : | devising, fashioning, making, |
definition | : | the act that results in something coming to be (noun.act) |
derivation | : | invention, |
definition | : | the act of inventing (noun.act) |
derivation | : | contrivance, devisal, |
definition | : | the act of devising something (noun.act) |
derivation | : | conceptualisation, conceptualization, formulation, |
definition | : | inventing or contriving an idea or explanation and formulating it mentally (noun.act) |
derivation | : | conception, design, excogitation, innovation, invention, |
definition | : | the creation of something in the mind (noun.cognition) |
derivation | : | excogitation, |
definition | : | thinking something out with care in order to achieve complete understanding of it (noun.cognition) |
derivation | : | formula, |
definition | : | a conventionalized statement expressing some fundamental principle (noun.communication) |
derivation | : | excogitator, |
definition | : | a thinker who considers carefully and thoroughly (noun.person) |
derivation | : | artificer, discoverer, inventor, |
definition | : | someone who is the first to think of or make something (noun.person) |
derivation | : | imaginative, inventive, |
definition | : | (used of persons or artifacts) marked by independence and creativity in thought or action (adj.all) |
6. make up something artificial or untrue (verb.creation)
derivation | : | fabrication, fictionalisation, fictionalization, |
definition | : | writing in a fictional form (noun.act) |
derivation | : | invention, |
definition | : | the act of inventing (noun.act) |
derivation | : | fable, fabrication, fiction, |
definition | : | a deliberately false or improbable account (noun.communication) |
derivation | : | fabricator, fibber, storyteller, |
definition | : | someone who tells lies (noun.person) |
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