Word Meanings - INTRIGUE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To form a plot or scheme; to contrive to accomplish a purpose by secret artifice. 2. To carry on a secret and illicit love or amour.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INTRIGUE)

• Conspiracy
• Intrigue
• cabal
• plot
• treason
• treachery
• machination
• coalition
• Craft
• Art
• artifice
• cunning
• guile
• stratagem
• manoeuvre
• wiliness
• trickery
• duplicity
• chicanery
• intrigue
• underhandedness
• dodge
• Machination
• Contrivance
• conspiracy
• artful scheme
• design
• Scheme
• Plan
• project
• contrivance
• purpose
• draft
• proposal
• device
• theory

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of INTRIGUE)

• Supply
• replenish
• import
• Recal
• withdraw
• draw
• retract
• pull
• attract
• rebound
• recoil
• adduce
• revert
• rebate
• Chance
• risk
• hazard
• revoke
• Miscalculate
• venture
• stake

Related words: (words related to INTRIGUE)

• CHANCELLERY
  Chancellorship. Gower.
• HAZARDIZE
  A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. Herself had run into that hazardize. Spenser.
• 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
• REVOKER
  One who revokes.
• 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.
• 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
• SUPPLYMENT
  A supplying or furnishing; supply. Shak.
• 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
• PURPOSELESS
  Having no purpose or result; objectless. Bp. Hall. -- Pur"pose*less*ness, n.
• VENTURESOME
  Inclined to venture; not loth to run risk or danger; venturous; bold; daring; adventurous; as, a venturesome boy or act. -- Ven"ture*some*ly, adv. -- Ven"ture*some*ness, n.
• IMPORTUNELY
  In an importune manner.
• 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.
• CUNNINGNESS
  Quality of being cunning; craft.
• COALITIONIST
  One who joins or promotes a coalition; one who advocates coalition.
• ATTRACTABILITY
  The quality or fact of being attractable. Sir W. Jones.
• CABALISM
  1. The secret science of the cabalists. 2. A superstitious devotion to the mysteries of the religion which one professes. Emerson.
• ATTRACTILE
  Having power to attract.
• DISVENTURE
  A disadventure. Shelton.
• SADDUCEEISM; SADDUCISM
  The tenets of the Sadducees.
• KINGCRAFT
  The craft of kings; the art of governing as a sovereign; royal policy. Prescott.
• VORTEX THEORY
  The theory, advanced by Thomson on the basis of investigation by Helmholtz, that the atoms are vortically moving ring-shaped masses (or masses of other forms having a similar internal motion) of a homogeneous, incompressible, frictionless fluid.
• DINGDONG THEORY
  The theory which maintains that the primitive elements of language are reflex expressions induced by sensory impressions; that is, as stated by Max Müller, the creative faculty gave to each general conception as it thrilled for the first