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

• contrive
• devise
• excogitate
• forge
• formulate

2. (verb) make up something artificial or untrue

• cook up
• fabricate
• make up
• manufacture

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

• create by mental act
• create mentally

2. (verb) make up something artificial or untrue

• concoct
• dream up
• hatch
• think of
• think up

1. (verb) make up something artificial or untrue

• concoct
• trump up
• confabulate
• mythologise
• mythologize
• spin
• vamp
• vamp up

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

• artificer
• discoverer
• inventor
• conception
• conception
• design
• design
• excogitation
• excogitation
• innovation
• innovation
• invention
• invention
• conceptualisation
• conceptualization
• formulation
• contrivance
• contrivance
• devisal
• devisal
• contriver
• deviser
• planner
• devising
• fashioning
• making
• excogitation
• excogitator
• formula
• imaginative
• inventive
• invention

2. (verb) make up something artificial or untrue

• fable
• fabrication
• fiction
• fabrication
• fictionalisation
• fictionalization
• fabricator
• fibber
• storyteller
• invention