Definition of invented

"invented" in the verb sense

1. invent, contrive, devise, excogitate, formulate, forge

come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort

"excogitate a way to measure the speed of light"

2. fabricate, manufacture, cook up, make up, invent

concoct something artificial or untrue

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Quotations for invented

It was Love who invented music. [ Virey ]

Ornaments were invented by modesty. [ Joubert ]

Blessings on him who invented sleep. [ Cervantes ]

If it is not true, it is cleverly invented. [ Italian Proverb ]

Ink was invented to make words living truths. [ W. Caxton ]

Ennui is an expressive word invented in France. [ Bancroft ]

He who first invented raiment, perhaps invented love. [ Segur ]

Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing. [ Swift ]

Ridiculous modes, invented by ignorance and adopted by folly. [ Smollett ]

Gravity is a stratagem invented to conceal the poverty of the mind. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Wise and good men invented the laws, but fools and the wicked put them upon it. [ Proverb ]

Gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body, invented to cover the defects of the mind. [ La Roche ]

We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them. [ Emerson ]

Jewels! It's my belief that when woman was made, jewels were invented only to make her the more mischievous. [ Douglas Jerrold ]

No dynamite will ever be invented that can rule; it can but dissolve and destroy. Only the word of God and the heart of man can govern. [ John Ruskin ]

Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the children of the light. [ Heine ]

Eloquence is an engine invented to manage and wield at will the fierce democracy, and, like medicine to the sick, is only employed in the paroxysms of a disordered state. [ Montaigne ]

This century boasts of progress! Have they invented a new mortal sin? Unfortunately there are but seven, as before - the number of the daily falls of a saint, which is very little. [ T. Gautier ]

Sydney Smith playfully says that commonsense was invented by Socrates, that philosopher having been one of its most conspicuous exemplars in conducting the contest of practical sagacity against stupid prejudice and illusory beliefs. [ Whipple ]

It is frivolous to fix pedantically the date of particular inventions. They have all been invented over and over fifty times, Man is the arch machine, of which all these shifts drawn from himself are toy models. He helps himself on each emergency by copying or duplicating his own structure, just so far as the need is. [ Emerson ]

Blessings on him who invented sleep, the mantle that covers all human thoughts, the food that appeases hunger, the drink that quenches thirst, the fire that warms cold, the cold that moderates heat, and, lastly, the general coin that purchases all things, the balance and weight that equals the shepherd with the king, and the simple with the wise. [ Cervantes ]

There are so many tender and holy emotions flying about in our inward world, which, like angels, can never assume the body of an outward act; so many rich and lovely flowers spring up which bear no seed, - that it is a happiness poetry was invented, which receives into its limbus all these incorporated spirits and the perfume of all these flowers. [ Richter ]

invented in Scrabble®

The word invented is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 12

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters invented:

INVENTED
(117)
INVENTED
(117)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (2 words)

dentine, evident

 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word invented

INVENTED
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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In invented

INVENTED
(117)
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EVIDENT
(95 = 45 + 50)
EVIDENT
(94 = 44 + 50)
EVIDENT
(89 = 39 + 50)
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EVIDENT
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EVIDENT
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EVIDENT
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EVIDENT
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DENTINE
(82 = 32 + 50)
EVIDENT
(80 = 30 + 50)
DENTINE
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INVENTED
(78)
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DENTINE
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DENTINE
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EVIDENT
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EVIDENT
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DENTINE
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EVIDENT
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EVIDENT
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DENTINE
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EVIDENT
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DENTINE
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invented in Words With Friends™

The word invented is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 15

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters invented:

EVIDENT
(116 = 81 + 35)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (2 words)

dentine, evident

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word invented

INVENTED
(114)
INVENTED
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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In invented

EVIDENT
(116 = 81 + 35)
INVENTED
(114)
EVIDENT
(104 = 69 + 35)
INVENTED
(102)
EVIDENT
(98 = 63 + 35)
DENTINE
(89 = 54 + 35)
EVIDENT
(87 = 52 + 35)
INVENTED
(87)
EVIDENT
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(86 = 51 + 35)
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EVIDENT
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DENTINE
(83 = 48 + 35)
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INVENTED
(81)
EVIDENT
(80 = 45 + 35)
EVIDENT
(80 = 45 + 35)
VENTED
(78)
DEVEIN
(78)
DENTINE
(77 = 42 + 35)
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ENVIED
(72)
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INVENT
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ENDIVE
(66)
ENVIED
(66)
EVIDENT
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INVENTED
(64)
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(63)
EVIDENT
(63 = 28 + 35)
DENTINE
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EVIDENT
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VINED
(63)
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(63)
EVIDENT
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(63)
DENTINE
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EVITED
(63)
VENIN
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VEND
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TINNED
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Words within the letters of invented

2 letter words in invented (4 words)

3 letter words in invented (17 words)

5 letter words in invented (6 words)

7 letter words in invented (2 words)

8 letter words in invented (1 word)

Words containing the sequence invented

Words that start with invented (1 word)

Words with invented in them (1 word)

Words that end with invented (3 words)

Word Growth involving invented

Shorter words in invented

in invent

en vent invent

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Longer words containing invented

reinvented

uninvented