invent
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort
excogitate a way to measure the speed of light
Types & categories
- create by mental act hypernym
Related & opposite
- devising derivation
- invention derivation
- devisal derivation
- conceptualization derivation
- invention derivation
- excogitation derivation
- formula derivation
- excogitator derivation
- artificer derivation
- planner derivation
- imaginative derivation
Sense 2 verb
make up something artificial or untrue
Types & categories
- think up hypernym
- mythologize hyponym
- confabulate hyponym
- trump up hyponym
- spin hyponym
- vamp hyponym
Related & opposite
- fabrication derivation
- invention derivation
- fabrication derivation
- fibber derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | devising |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | invention |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | devisal |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | conceptualization |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | invention |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | excogitation |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | formula |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | excogitator |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | artificer |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | planner |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | imaginative |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | create by mental act |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | fabrication |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | invention |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | fabrication |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | fibber |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | think up |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | mythologize |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | confabulate |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | trump up |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | spin |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | vamp |