Antonyms for crafts
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : kraft, krahft |
| Phonetic Transcription : kræft, krɑft |
Definition of crafts
Origin :- Old English cræft, originally "power, physical strength, might," from Proto-Germanic *krab-/*kraf- (cf. Old Frisian kreft, Old High German chraft, German Kraft "strength, skill;" Old Norse kraptr "strength, virtue"). Sense expanded in Old English to include "skill, art, science, talent" (via a notion of "mental power"), which led to the meaning "trade, handicraft, calling." The word still was used for "might, power" in Middle English.
- Use for "small boat" is first recorded 1670s, probably from a phrase resembling vessels of small craft and referring either to the trade they did or the seamanship they required, or perhaps it preserves the word in its original sense of "power."
- noun expertise, skill
- noun deceit, scheme
- noun business, discipline
- noun water or air vehicle
- They had the manual arts and crafts of the industrial North.
- Extract from : « With Manchesters in the East » by Gerald B. Hurst
- Their development of the arts and crafts has never been equalled in the modern time.
- Extract from : « Old-Time Makers of Medicine » by James J. Walsh
- Poles are used to this day to propel the crafts on the Euphrates.
- Extract from : « The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria » by Morris Jastrow
- He gave of his best with the same thoroughness as in all his crafts, and no man can do more.
- Extract from : « Victorian Worthies » by George Henry Blore
- She improved on the lessons given by p. 5Germany and Italy in these crafts.
- Extract from : « The Library » by Andrew Lang
- These universities did not care for the crafts, and did not acknowledge apprenticeship.
- Extract from : « The Civilization of Illiteracy » by Mihai Nadin
- The guild prevailed all over Europe and regulated all crafts.
- Extract from : « The Tapestry Book » by Helen Churchill Candee
- We saw one of these crafts lately captured, which had been brought to Kuching.
- Extract from : « The Mate of the Lily » by W. H. G. Kingston
- There is inevitably a certain amount of overlapping of the crafts.
- Extract from : « Art in Needlework » by Lewis F. Day
- The highest of the crafts in the Middle Age was goldsmithing.
- Extract from : « Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 2 » by Francis Marion Crawford
Synonyms for crafts
- ability
- adeptness
- adroitness
- air ship
- aircraft
- airplane
- aptitude
- art
- artfulness
- artifice
- artistry
- barge
- blimp
- boat
- bottom
- cageyness
- calling
- canniness
- career
- cleverness
- competence
- contrivance
- craftiness
- cunning
- dexterity
- disingenuity
- duplicity
- employment
- expertness
- foxiness
- guile
- handicraft
- ingenuity
- knack
- know-how
- line
- métier
- occupation
- plane
- profession
- proficiency
- pursuit
- ruse
- ship
- shipping
- shrewdness
- slyness
- spacecraft
- stratagem
- strategy
- subterfuge
- subtlety
- technique
- trade
- trickery
- vessel
- vocation
- watercraft
- wiles
- wiliness
- work
- zeppelin
Based on : Thesaurus.com - Gutenberg.org - Dictionary.com - Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019