Synonyms for contrivance
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : kuh n-trahy-vuh ns |
| Phonetic Transcription : kənˈtraɪ vəns |
Top 10 synonyms for contrivance Other synonyms for the word contrivance
- creation
- design
- device
- discovery
- dodge
- engine
- equipment
- expedient
- formation
- gear
- gimcrack
- harness
- implement
- instrument
- intrigue
- invention
- inventiveness
- machination
- machine
- material
- measure
- mechanism
- plot
- project
- scheme
- slant
- stratagem
- switch
- tackle
- thingamabob
- thingamajig
- tool
- trick
- twist
- utensil
- whatsis
- widget
Définition of contrivance
Origin :- 1620s, from contrive + -ance.
- noun plan, fabrication
- noun gadget
- This expedition up the mountain was entirely of his contrivance.
- Extract from : « The Miraculous Pitcher » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The contrivance, if a contrivance, to get me away, so insolently mean!
- Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 3 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
- Then he began to experiment, with some rude apparatus of his own contrivance.
- Extract from : « Self-Help » by Samuel Smiles
- It was by his contrivance the girl had been sent from India.
- Extract from : « Henry Dunbar » by M. E. Braddon
- Please, however, to note the contrivance which I adopt whenever I am in a difficulty of this sort.
- Extract from : « Cratylus » by Plato
- And by what like contrivance would you have me catch my lovers?
- Extract from : « The Memorabilia » by Xenophon
- In its present form it is the offspring of the art and contrivance of man.
- Extract from : « Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 » by Various
- Contrivance—that most belauded phenomenon in Nature's craft—was everywhere.
- Extract from : « Confessions Of Con Cregan » by Charles James Lever
- And so comes now a contrivance for holding the spindle in this position.
- Extract from : « The Story of the Cotton Plant » by Frederick Wilkinson
- Beauty” is, to some persons, as great a stumbling-block as “contrivance.
- Extract from : « Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection » by Alfred Russel Wallace
Antonyms for contrivance
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