The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Invent
//ɪnˈvɛnt//
Synonyms for "invent" (128 found)
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Closest matches (26)
Strong matches (38)
Related words (64)
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7 entriesSynonyms
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7 entriesderived
10 entriesmanner of
1 entriesrelated to
7 entriesTranslations
100 translations across 47 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- uitvind verb (design a new process or mechanism)
Arabic
1 entries- اِخْتَرَعَ verb (design a new process or mechanism)
Armenian
1 entries- հնարել verb (design a new process or mechanism)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- quraşdırmaq verb (create something fictional)
- uydurmaq verb (create something fictional)
Belarusian
2 entries- вы́найсці verb (design a new process or mechanism)
- вынахо́дзіць verb (design a new process or mechanism)
Bulgarian
2 entries- изми́слям verb (create something fictional)
- изобретя́вам verb (design a new process or mechanism)
Catalan
2 entries- inventar verb (design a new process or mechanism)
- inventar verb (create something fictional)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 發明 /发明 verb (design a new process or mechanism)
Cornish
1 entries- devisya verb (design a new process or mechanism)
Czech
1 entries- vynalézt verb (design a new process or mechanism)
Dutch
4 entries- bedenken verb (create something fictional)
- uitdenken verb (design a new process or mechanism)
- uitdenken verb (create something fictional)
- uitvinden verb (design a new process or mechanism)
Esperanto
1 entries- inventi verb (design a new process or mechanism)
Faroese
2 entries- finna upp verb (design a new process or mechanism)
- hugsa upp verb (design a new process or mechanism)
Finnish
2 entries- keksiä verb (design a new process or mechanism)
- keksiä verb (create something fictional)
French
2 entries- inventer verb (design a new process or mechanism)
- inventer verb (create something fictional)
Galician
1 entries- inventar verb (design a new process or mechanism)
German
3 entries- ausdenken verb (create something fictional)
- erfinden verb (design a new process or mechanism)
- erfinden verb (create something fictional)
Greek
1 entries- εφευρίσκω verb (design a new process or mechanism)
Hungarian
4 entries- feltalál verb (design a new process or mechanism)
- kiagyal verb (create something fictional)
- kieszel verb (create something fictional)
- kigondol verb (create something fictional)
Icelandic
1 entries- finna upp verb (design a new process or mechanism)
Irish
4 entries- ceap verb (design a new process or mechanism)
- ceap verb (create something fictional)
- cum verb (design a new process or mechanism)
- cum verb (create something fictional)
Italian
3 entries- creare verb (create something fictional)
- ideare verb (create something fictional)
- inventare verb (design a new process or mechanism)
Japanese
1 entries- 発明する verb (design a new process or mechanism)
Khmer
1 entries- បង្កើត verb (design a new process or mechanism)
Korean
1 entries- 발명하다 verb (design a new process or mechanism)
Latin
2 entries- inveniō verb (design a new process or mechanism)
- reperiō verb (design a new process or mechanism)
Lithuanian
1 entries- išgalvoti verb (create something fictional)
Macedonian
4 entries- измислува verb (design a new process or mechanism)
- измислува verb (create something fictional)
- изумува verb (design a new process or mechanism)
- пронаоѓа verb (design a new process or mechanism)
Ngazidja Comorian
1 entries- utrunga verb (create something fictional)
Norwegian
1 entries- oppfinne verb (design a new process or mechanism)
Old English
2 entries- āþenċan verb (design a new process or mechanism)
- āþenċan verb (create something fictional)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- دوزمك verb (create something fictional)
Polish
3 entries- wymyślać verb (create something fictional)
- wymyślić verb (create something fictional)
- wynaleźć verb (design a new process or mechanism)
Portuguese
1 entries- inventar verb (design a new process or mechanism)
Romanian
3 entries- inventa verb (design a new process or mechanism)
- născoci verb (design a new process or mechanism)
- scorni verb (design a new process or mechanism)
Russian
4 entries- вы́думать verb (create something fictional)
- выду́мывать verb (create something fictional)
- измы́слить verb (create something fictional)
- измышля́ть verb (create something fictional)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- izumeti verb (design a new process or mechanism)
- izumjeti verb (design a new process or mechanism)
- изумети verb (design a new process or mechanism)
- изумјети verb (design a new process or mechanism)
Slovak
1 entries- vynájsť verb (design a new process or mechanism)
Slovene
2 entries- izumiti verb (design a new process or mechanism)
- izumljati verb (design a new process or mechanism)
Spanish
2 entries- inventar verb (design a new process or mechanism)
- inventar verb (create something fictional)
Swedish
1 entries- uppfinna verb (design a new process or mechanism)
Tamil
2 entries- கண்டுபிடி verb (design a new process or mechanism)
- கண்டுபிடி verb (create something fictional)
Thai
1 entries- คิดค้น verb (design a new process or mechanism)
Turkish
3 entries- icat etmek verb (design a new process or mechanism)
- uydurmak verb (create something fictional)
- yaratmak verb (create something fictional)
Ukrainian
2 entries- ви́найти verb (design a new process or mechanism)
- винахо́дити verb (design a new process or mechanism)
Vietnamese
1 entries- phát minh verb (design a new process or mechanism)
Volapük
1 entries- datuvön verb (design a new process or mechanism)
Sample sentences
15 total sentences available.
What did Bell invent?
Source: tatoeba (25217)
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
Source: tatoeba (30951)
Don't use "discover" when you mean "invent".
Source: tatoeba (73579)
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.