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.

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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.
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