invented

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈvɛntɪd/

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• Hyphenation: in‧vent‧ed

invented (comparative more invented, superlative most invented)

1. fictional, made up, imaginary.

   The invented alibi didn't stand up long.

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.