Word Meanings - CONTRIVER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who contrives, devises, plans, or schemas. Swift.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CONTRIVER)

• Architect
• Constructor
• contriver
• designer
• builder
• surveyor
• agent
• Inventor
• Creator
• originator
• author

Related words: (words related to CONTRIVER)

• ARCHITECTURAL
  Of or pertaining to the art of building; conformed to the rules of architecture. -- Ar`chi*tec"tur*al*ly, adv.
• ARCHITECTRESS
  A female architect.
• ARCHITECTONIC
  1. The science of architecture. 2. The act of arranging knowledge into a system.
• ARCHITECTONIC; ARCHITECTONICAL
  1. Pertaining to a master builder, or to architecture; evincing skill in designing or construction; constructive. "Architectonic wisdom." Boyle. These architectonic functions which we had hitherto thought belonged. J. C. Shairp. 2. Relating to
• AGENT
  Actingpatient, or sustaining, action. "The body agent." Bacon. (more info) Gr. aka to drive, Skr. aj.
• ORIGINATOR
  One who originates.
• INVENTOR
  One who invents or finds out something new; a contriver; especially, one who invents mechanical devices.
• CONTRIVER
  One who contrives, devises, plans, or schemas. Swift.
• INVENTORIAL
  Of or pertaining to an inventory. -- In`ven*to"ri*al*ly, adv. Shak.
• AUTHORITY
  1. Legal or rightful power; a right to command or to act; power exercised buy a person in virtue of his office or trust; dominion; jurisdiction; authorization; as, the authority of a prince over subjects, and of parents over children; the authority
• AUTHORESS
  A female author. Glover. Note: The word is not very much used, author being commonly applied to a female writer as well as to a male.
• ARCHITECT
  1. A person skilled in the art of building; one who understands architecture, or makes it his occupation to form plans and designs of buildings, and to superintend the artificers employed. 2. A contriver, designer, or maker. The architects of their
• CREATOR
  One who creates, produces, or constitutes. Specifically, the Supreme Being. To sin's rebuke and my Creater's praise. Shak. The poets and artists of Greece, who are at the same time its prophets, the creators of its divinities, and the revealers
• ARCHITECTONICS
  The science of architecture.
• AUTHORSHIP
  1. The quality or state of being an author; function or dignity of an author. 2. Source; origin; origination; as, the authorship of a book or review, or of an act, or state of affairs.
• AGENTSHIP
  Agency. Beau. & Fl.
• AUTHOR
  auctor, sometimes, but erroneously, written autor or author, fr. 1. The beginner, former, or first mover of anything; hence, the efficient cause of a thing; a creator; an originator. Eternal King; thee, Author of all being. Milton. 2.
• DESIGNER
  One who produces or creates original works of art or decoration. 3. A plotter; a schemer; -- used in a bad sense. (more info) 1. One who designs, marks out, or plans; a contriver.
• AUTHORIZABLE
  Capable of being authorized. Hammond.
• AUTHORIZED
  1. Possessed of or endowed with authority; as, an authorized agent. 2. Sanctioned by authority. The Authorized Version of the Bible is the English translation of the Bible published in 1611 under sanction of King James I. It was "appointed to be
• INTERAGENT
  An intermediate agent.
• GEORGIAN ARCHITECTURE
  British or British colonial architecture of the period of the four Georges, especially that of the period before 1800.
• SHIPBUILDER
  A person whose occupation is to construct ships and other vessels; a naval architect; a shipwright.
• INAUTHORITATIVE
  Without authority; not authoritative.
• UNDERBUILDER
  A subordinate or assistant builder. An underbuilder in the house of God. Jer. Taylor.
• REBUILDER
  One who rebuilds. Bp. Bull.
• DISAUTHORIZE
  To deprive of credit or authority; to discredit. W. Wotton.