Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɪnˈvɛntɪd/
- Hyphenation: in‧vent‧ed
Adjective
invented (comparative more invented, superlative most invented)
- fictional, made up, imaginary.
The invented alibi didn't stand up long.
Translations
fictional, made up
- Afrikaans: opgemaakte, fiktiewe
- Finnish: keksitty (fi)
- French: trouvé (fr)
- German: erfunden (de)
- Greek: πλαστός (el) (plastós)
- Irish: cumtha
- Italian: inventato (it)
- Latin: prōductus (la), conglūtinātus, excōgitātus, commentus, cōnfictus, excōgitandus, commenticius
- Manx: crooit
- Polish: wymyślony, zmyślony (pl)
- Portuguese: inventado (pt)
- Russian: вы́мышленный (ru) (výmyšlennyj), вы́думанный (ru) (výdumannyj), приду́манный (ru) (pridúmannyj)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ѝзмишљен
- Roman: ìzmišljen (sh)
- Spanish: inventado (es)
- Ukrainian: ви́гаданий (výhadanyj), ви́думаний (výdumanyj)
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Verb
invented
- simple past and past participle of invent
1945, Robert Frost, A Masque of Reason:Job’s Wife ➤ God, who invented earth?
Job ➤ What, still awake?
God ➤ Any originality it showed
Was of the Devil. He invented Hell,
False premises that are the original
Of all originality, the sin
That felled the angels, Wolsey should have said.