invented

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈvɛntɪd/

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• Hyphenation: in‧vent‧ed

Adjective

invented (comparative more invented, superlative most invented)

1. 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)

imaginary — see imaginary

Verb

invented

1. 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.