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invented

adjectiveverbcommon in dialogue

  • //ɪnˈvɛntɪd//

Fictional, made up, imaginary.

adjective

  1. 1

    Fictional, made up, imaginary.

    The invented alibi didn't stand up long.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of inventsimple past and past participle of invent

    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.

Forms

comparative
more invented
superlative
most invented
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).