invented

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English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɪnˈvɛntɪd/
  • Audio (General American):(file)
  • 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

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.