inventing

Meaning

of Invent

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

composing innovate fabricate concoct compiling creating constructing contriving fibbing conceiving

Antonyms

blocking deriving countermanding

Examples

The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I'd been up all night inventing the Camcorder. Al Gore

The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish. Evelyn Waugh

The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value. Ben Elton

By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed. Lewis Mumford

Racism does not limit itself to biology or economics or psychology or metaphysics; it attacks along many fronts and in many forms, deploying whatever is at hand, and even what is not, inventing when the need arises. Albert Memmi

I enjoy inventing things out of fun. After all, life is a game, not a career. Brion Gysin