Word Meanings - CONTRIVANCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act or faculty of contriving, inventing, devising, or planning. The machine which we are inspecting demonstrates, by its construction, contrivance and design. Contrivance must have had a contriver. Paley. 2. The thing contrived, invented,

Additional info about word: CONTRIVANCE

1. The act or faculty of contriving, inventing, devising, or planning. The machine which we are inspecting demonstrates, by its construction, contrivance and design. Contrivance must have had a contriver. Paley. 2. The thing contrived, invented, or planned; disposition of parts or causes by design; a scheme; plan; atrifice; arrangement. Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Burke. Syn. -- Device; plan; scheme; invention; machine; project; design; artifice; shift. See Device.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CONTRIVANCE)

• Appliance
• Contrivance
• mechanism
• arrangement
• means
• agency
• Artifice
• manoeuvre
• cheat
• wile
• contrivance
• craft
• trick
• fraud
• machination
• punning
• imposture
• stratagem
• Design
• Contemplation
• pur pose
• intention
• plan
• delineation
• sketch
• drawing
• artifice
• cunning
• artfulness
• guile
• intent
• project
• scheme
• Device
• expedient
• design
• symbol
• emblem
• show
• invention
• cognizance
• Diplomacy
• Embassy
• ministry
• ambassadorship
• representation
• tact
• management
• negotiation
• outwitting
• circumvention

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of CONTRIVANCE)

• Enlighten
• guide
• remunerate
• compensate
• undeceive
• disabuse
• Recal
• withdraw
• draw
• retract
• pull
• attract
• rebound
• recoil
• adduce
• revert
• rebate

Related words: (words related to CONTRIVANCE)

• SYMBOLISTIC; SYMBOLISTICAL
  Characterized by the use of symbols; as, symbolistic poetry.
• DRAWER
  An under-garment worn on the lower limbs. Chest of drawers. See under Chest. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, draws; as: One who draws liquor for guests; a waiter in a taproom. Shak. One who delineates or depicts; a draughtsman; as, a good
• PROJECTION
  The representation of something; delineation; plan; especially, the representation of any object on a perspective plane, or such a delineation as would result were the chief points of the object thrown forward upon the plane, each in the direction
• DESIGN
  drawing, dessein a plan or scheme; all, ultimately, from L. designare to designate; de- + signare to mark, mark out, signum mark, sign. See 1. To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace
• INTENTIONALITY
  The quality or state of being intentional; purpose; design. Coleridge.
• CRAFTY
  1. Relating to, or characterized by, craft or skill; dexterous. "Crafty work." Piers Plowman. 2. Possessing dexterity; skilled; skillful. A noble crafty man of trees. Wyclif. 3. Skillful at deceiving others; characterized by craft; cunning; wily.
• DRAWCANSIR
  A blustering, bullying fellow; a pot-valiant braggart; a bully. The leader was of an ugly look and gigantic stature; he acted like a drawcansir, sparing neither friend nor foe. Addison.
• DESIGNATE
  Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
• ARTIFICER
  A military mechanic, as a blacksmith, carpenter, etc.; also, one who prepares the shells, fuses, grenades, etc., in a military laboratory. Syn. -- Artisan; artist. See Artisan. (more info) 1. An artistic worker; a mechanic or manufacturer; one
• REVERT
  To change back. See Revert, v. i. To revert a series , to treat a series, as y = a + bx + cx2 + etc., where one variable y is expressed in powers of a second variable x, so as to find therefrom the second variable x, expressed in a series arranged
• RETRACTOR
  One who, or that which, retracts. Specifically: In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel.
• PROJECTMENT
  Design; contrivance; projection. Clarendon.
• DRAW-CUT
  A single cut with a knife.
• DRAWEE
  The person on whom an order or bill of exchange is drawn; -- the correlative of drawer.
• SYMBOLISM
  The science of creeds; symbolics. (more info) 1. The act of symbolizing, or the state of being symbolized; as, symbolism in Christian art is the representation of truth, virtues, vices, etc., by emblematic colors, signs, and forms. 2. A system
• CUNNINGNESS
  Quality of being cunning; craft.
• DELINEATION
  1. The act of representing, portraying, or describing, as by lines, diagrams, sketches, etc.; drawing an outline; as, the delineation of a scene or face; in drawing and engraving, representation by means of lines, as distinguished from
• ATTRACTABILITY
  The quality or fact of being attractable. Sir W. Jones.
• TRICK
  The whole number of cards played in one round, and consisting of as many cards as there are players. On one nice trick depends the general fate. Pope. (more info) draw; akin to LG. trekken, MHG. trecken, trechen, Dan. trække, and 1. An artifice
• DRAWROD
  A rod which unites the drawgear at opposite ends of the car, and bears the pull required to draw the train.
• SADDUCEEISM; SADDUCISM
  The tenets of the Sadducees.
• KINGCRAFT
  The craft of kings; the art of governing as a sovereign; royal policy. Prescott.
• UNBEGUILE
  To set free from the influence of guile; to undeceive. "Then unbeguile thyself." Donne.
• FOREDESIGN
  To plan beforehand; to intend previously. Cheyne.