[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

invent \invent"\, v. t. imp.  p. p. invented; p. pr.  vb.
   n. inventing. l. inventus, p. p. of invenire to come
   upon, to find, invent; pref. in- in + venire to come, akin to
   e. come: cf. f. inventer. see come.
   1913 webster
   1. to come or light upon; to meet; to find. obs.
      1913 webster

            and vowed never to return again,
            till him alive or dead she did invent. --spenser.
      1913 webster

   2. to discover, as by study or inquiry; to find out; to
      devise; to contrive or produce for the first time; --
      applied commonly to the discovery of some serviceable
      mode, instrument, or machine.
      1913 webster

            thus first necessity invented stools. --cowper.
      1913 webster

   3. to frame by the imagination; to fabricate mentally; to
      forge; -- in a good or a bad sense; as, to invent the
      machinery of a poem; to invent a falsehood.
      1913 webster

            whate'er his cruel malice could invent. --milton.
      1913 webster

            he had invented some circumstances, and put the
            worst possible construction on others. --sir w.
                                                  scott.

   syn: to discover; contrive; devise; frame; design; fabricate;
        concoct; elaborate. see discover.
        1913 webster
see also:
invented inventing come discover 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

invented
     adj : formed or conceived by the imagination; "a fabricated excuse
           for his absence"; "a fancied wrong"; "a fictional
           character"; "used fictitious names"; "a made-up story"
           syn: fabricated, fancied, fictional, fictitious,
            made-up
see also:
fabricated fancied fictional fictitious made-up 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

24 moby thesaurus words for "invented":
   coined, conceived, concocted, cooked-up, discovered, fabricated,
   fabulous, fancied, fantasied, fantastic, fictional, fictitious,
   figmental, forged, hatched, legendary, made-up, manufactured,
   minted, mythical, new-minted, originated, put-up, trumped-up

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