Invent vs Innovative - What's the difference?

As a verb invent

is to design a new process or mechanism.

characterized by the creation of new ideas or things.

(en verb)

To design a new process or mechanism.

After weeks of hard work, I invented a new way to alphabetize matchbooks.

To create something fictional for a particular purpose.

I knew I had to invent an excuse, and quickly.

We need a name to put in this form, so let's just invent one.

(obsolete) To come upon; to find; to find out; to discover.

* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.vi:

Far off he wonders, what them makes so glad, / If Bacchus merry fruit they did inuent [...].

* fangle * discover

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(en adjective)

Characterized by the creation of new ideas or things

Forward looking; ahead of current thinking

* innovatory