Synonyms for contrivance
kənˈtraɪ vəns

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1. appliance, contraption, contrivance, convenience, gadget, gizmo, gismo, widget(noun)

   a device or control that is very useful for a particular job

   Synonyms:
   comfort station, doodad, gadget, lash-up, gismo, restroom, public lavatory, public convenience, thingmajig, whatsis, thingamabob, thingumajig, whatchamacallit, dodge, devisal, appliance, thingummy, doojigger, convenience, public toilet, thingmabob, toilet facility, thingamajig, stratagem, wash room, doohickey, thingumabob, widget, gimmick, contraption, gubbins, whatchamacallum, gizmo

2. contrivance(noun)

   the faculty of contriving; inventive skill

   "his skillful contrivance of answers to every problem"

   Synonyms:
   stratagem, devisal, convenience, gismo, widget, gadget, appliance, lash-up, contraption, dodge, gizmo

3. contrivance, stratagem, dodge(noun)

   an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade

   "his testimony was just a contrivance to throw us off the track"

   Synonyms:
   gambit, stratagem, devisal, convenience, scheme, ploy, gismo, widget, dodging, gadget, appliance, lash-up, contraption, dodge, gizmo

4. contrivance(noun)

   an artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc.

   "the plot contained too many improbable contrivances to be believable"

   Synonyms:
   stratagem, devisal, convenience, gismo, widget, gadget, appliance, lash-up, contraption, dodge, gizmo

5. lash-up, contrivance(noun)

   any improvised arrangement for temporary use

   Synonyms:
   stratagem, devisal, convenience, gismo, widget, gadget, appliance, lash-up, contraption, dodge, gizmo

6. devisal, contrivance(noun)

   the act of devising something

   Synonyms:
   stratagem, devisal, convenience, gismo, widget, gadget, appliance, lash-up, contraption, dodge, gizmo

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1. contrivance

   A contrivance or device may be either good or bad. A cheat is a mean advantage in a bargain; a fraud, any form of covert robbery or injury. Imposture is a deceitful contrivance for securing charity, credit, or consideration. A stratagem or maneuver may be of the good against the bad, as it were a skilful movement of war. A wile is usually but not necessarily evil.

   E'en children followed with endearing wile.

   Goldsmith Deserted Village, l. 184.

   A trick is often low, injurious, and malicious; we say a mean trick; the word is sometimes used playfully with less than its full meaning. A ruse or a blind may be quite innocent and harmless. An artifice is a carefully and delicately prepared contrivance for doing indirectly what one could not well do directly. A device is something studied out for promoting an end, as in a mechanism; the word is used of indirect action, often, but not necessarily directed to an evil, selfish, or injurious end. Finesse is especially subtle contrivance, delicate artifice, whether for good or evil. Compare FRAUD.

   Synonyms:
   art, artifice, blind, cheat, craft, cunning, device, dodge, finesse, fraud, guile, imposture, invention, machination, maneuver, ruse, stratagem, subterfuge, trick, wile

   Antonyms:
   artlessness, candor, fairness, frankness, guilelessness, honesty, ingenuousness, innocence, openness, simplicity, sincerity, truth

Dictionary of English Synonymes(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. contrivance(n.)

   Synonyms:
   design, invention

2. contrivance(n.)

   Synonyms:
   device, scheme, plan, plot, artifice, stratagem, complot, machination

PPDB, the paraphrase database(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. List of paraphrases:

   invention

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