Synonyms Dictionary
2. imagine, conjure up, conceive, idealize, visualize, envisage, indulge in reverie, rhapsodize; envision, image, picture, Inf. feature; dream, Inf. dream up, Inf. see things; improvise, make up, ad-lib.
3. fabricate, concoct, spin, Inf. pull out of a hat, Inf. cook up, SI. hoke up, rig, set up, trump up, hatch; prevaricate, lie, fib; misrepresent, distort, pervert, exaggerate, dress up, embroider, varnish. invention, n. 1. origination, creation, composition, discovery; fabrication, concoction, construction, production; device, contrivance, instrument, mechanism, contraption, gadget, Inf thingumagig, Inf. thingama-bob; expedient, step, measure, maneuver, stratagem, devisal, excogitation, plan, design, formulation; bright idea, coup, master stroke, Inf. trump card.
2. imagination, creativity, artistry, originality, ingenuity, resourcefulness, inventiveness; inspiration, verve, genius, cleverness, adeptness, adroitness, skillfulness.
3. fantasy, daydream, reverie, vision, illusion; whim, romanticism, romance, myth, ideality.
4. figment, fiction, fable, yarn, tall tale or story, fish story, cock-and-bull story, Inf. song and dance; falsehood, lie, fib, untruth, prevarication, mendacity, untruthfulness; forgery, fake, couterfeit, sham, falsification, minting, coinage. inventive, adj. 1. creative, imaginative, originative, visionary, inspired; concoctive, devising, contriving, composing, shaping, making; talented, artistic, endowed, gifted; original, fanciful, ingenious, resourceful; clever, quick, sharp, able, adept, adroit; skilled, skillful, deft, expert.
2. imaginary, fictitious, fictive, invented; fancied, dreamed up, illusory. inventor, n. creator, author, originator, coiner, generator, initiator, prime mover, father; contriver, deviser, planner; discoverer, framer, maker, designer; builder, organizer, establisher, institutor; artist, craftsman, architect, producer. inventory, n. 1. list, listing, tally, enumeration, numeration, census, poll, statistics; table, index, portfolio, directory, ledger, calendar, schedule; roster, register, account, description, record, rota, roll, statement; slate, bill, menu, sheet, score, price list, checklist.
2. stock, goods, items, merchandise, wares, store, produce, provisions, dry goods; assets, effects, commodities, assortment, contents, ingredients. inveracity, n. 1. untruthfulness, mendacity, falseness, fallaciousness, dissembling; deception, deceitfulness, insincerity, dissimulation, duplicity, equivocation.
2. untruth, falsehood, lie, fib, prevarication; fabrication, fiction, invention, deceit. inverse, adj. 1. reversed, transposed, reverse, converse, counter, retroverted; palindromic, metathetical, right to left, back to front, Rare, ananymous; anastro-phic, hyperbatic, Rhet. chiastic, backward; opposite, antipodal, contrary, diametrical, contraposed, antithetical.
2. inverted, upside down, wrongside up, on one's head, head over heels; topsy-turvy, Inf arsy-varsy, Fr. sens dessus dessous, outside in, inside out, bottom up. -n. 3. opposite, contrary, antipode, antithesis, antipole, counterpole; reverse, converse, the other side, obverse, SI. flip side, the other side of the coin, mirror image. inversion, n. 1. reversal, transposition, transposal, reversion, turning back, retroflexion; retroversion, palindrome, Rare, ananym, metathesis, tmesis; All Rhet. anatrophe, hyperbaton, hypallage, hysteron pro-teron, chiasmus.
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