Synonyms for devise
dɪˈvaɪzde·vise

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. devise

   Synonyms:
   contrive, plan, maneuvre, concert, manage

   Antonyms:
   miscontrive, mismanage

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

1. devisenoun

   a will disposing of real property

2. deviseverb

   (law) a gift of real property by will

3. invent, contrive, devise, excogitate, formulate, forgeverb

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

   "excogitate a way to measure the speed of light"

   Synonyms:
   excogitate, ruminate, work, fake, prepare, make up, develop, contemplate, muse, get up, organize, fabricate, forge, plan, speculate, throw, cast, mull over, think over, form, mould, invent, word, manufacture, mull, explicate, reflect, fashion, articulate, spirt, cook up, organise, meditate, hammer, counterfeit, chew over, contrive, shape, phrase, ponder, spurt, give voice, formulate, project, design, machinate, mold

4. organize, organise, prepare, devise, get up, machinateverb

   arrange by systematic planning and united effort

   "machinate a plot"; "organize a strike"; "devise a plan to take over the director's office"

   Synonyms:
   conspire, excogitate, trick up, prink, drum, rise, ready, coordinate, prepare, stand up, bone up, fig up, mug up, cook, fancy up, fix, develop, elevate, uprise, get up, work up, gear up, organize, forge, unionize, tog up, grind away, lift, make, cram, arise, swot up, cabal, form, gussy up, bring up, attire, train, mastermind, invent, groom, overdress, deck up, complot, direct, raise, engineer, trick out, organise, bone, unionise, set up, turn out, swot, contrive, fig out, dress up, tog out, rig out, orchestrate, formulate, set, conjure, deck out, machinate, educate

5. deviseverb

   give by will, especially real property

   Synonyms:
   machinate, formulate, get up, invent, organise, excogitate, forge, prepare, contrive, organize

Matched Categories

1. • Bequeath
   • Will

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. deviseverb

   Synonyms:
   contrive, invent, imagine, plan, scheme, project, brew, concert, concoct, COMPASS

2. deviseverb

   Synonyms:
   bequeath, demise, leave, give by will

3. devisenoun

   Synonyms:
   bequest, legacy

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:3.3 / 3 votes

1. deviseverb

   Synonyms:
   contrive, invent, scheme, concoct, excogitate, bequeath

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1. List of paraphrases for "devise":

   develop, design, conceive, invent, formulate, designing, find, prepare, elaborate

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How to use devise in a sentence?

1. Krzysztof Kieślowski:

   Why did they devise censorship? To show a world which doesn’t exist, an ideal world, or what they envisaged as the ideal world. And we wanted to depict the world as it was.

2. Dudley Brown:

   Mr. President, if you want to devise a way to lose the 2020 elections, go against your base and support these two gun controls or any others.

3. Michael Raymond-James:

   To come and be able to sit here — it's incredible, i'm sitting where Paul Revere used to come with his fellow Patriots to devise their plan of attack. You can't recreate this feeling — it's like grasping at smoke.

4. Bruno Lage:

   The most important thing a club has to understand in modern times is the kind of work it has to do in order to have sporting and financial success, the secret for Benfica was not to copy anyone and to devise a way to have sporting success regardless of what players we sell for the good of our financial stability. Any young talent that stands out in a club is immediately transferred, because the offers are irrefutable.

5. The German:

   ... I hope very much in the weeks to come, we will be able to devise a common shared road map between France and Germany... We need more trust, much more trust and more specifically, results.