excogitate
verb
ex·cog·i·tate ek-ˈskä-jə-ˌtāt 
excogitated; excogitating; excogitates
transitive verb
: to think out : devise
excogitation
(ˌ)ek-ˌskä-jə-ˈtā-shən
noun excogitative
ek-ˈskä-jə-ˌtā-tiv
adjective 
Synonyms
- concoct
- construct
- contrive
- cook (up)
- devise
- drum up
- fabricate
- invent
- make up
- manufacture
- think (up)
- trump up
- vamp (up)
See all Synonyms & Antonyms 
Example Sentences
she's a master at excogitating reasons not to do her assigned work
Word History
Etymology
Latin excogitatus, past participle of excogitare, from ex- + cogitare to cogitate
First Known Use
circa 1530, in the meaning defined above
excogitated
verb
as in devised
to create or think of by clever use of the imagination she's a master at excogitating reasons not to do her assigned work Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- devised
- concocted
- constructed
- invented
- trumped up
- designed
- manufactured
- vamped (up)
- drummed up
- came up with
- produced
- made up
- cooked (up)
- thought (up)
- contrived
- fabricated
- conceived
- visualized
- envisioned
- hatched
- dreamed
- imagined
- improvised
- envisaged
- coined
- extemporized
- daydreamed
- fantasized
- dreamt
- visioned
- pictured
- ad-libbed
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- duplicated
- copied
- mimicked
- reproduced
- cloned
- imitated
- replicated
- copycatted
- reduplicated