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
excogitates
verb
as in devises
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
- devises
- constructs
- concocts
- designs
- invents
- drums up
- trumps up
- comes up with
- manufactures
- cooks (up)
- vamps (up)
- makes up
- produces
- thinks (up)
- hatches
- dreams
- contrives
- extemporizes
- daydreams
- visions
- coins
- visualizes
- envisions
- fantasizes
- conceives
- fabricates
- improvises
- envisages
- pictures
- imagines
- ad-libs
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- copies
- reduplicates
- duplicates
- mimics
- imitates
- reproduces
- clones
- replicates
- copycats