Definition for Contrivance:

• The thing contrived, invented, or planned; disposition of parts or causes by design; a scheme; plan; atrifice; arrangement.

Synonyms for Contrivance:

• n.

  •
  • expedient,
  • array.
  •
  • action,
  • tackle,
  • harness,
  • creation,
  • gear,
  • denouement,
  • content,
  • act,
  • material,
  • the credits.
  •
  • concern,
  • prank,
  • dirty tricks,
  • hoax.
  •
  • make.
  •achievement (noun)
  • encompassments.
  •appliance (noun)
  • appliance.
  •calculation (noun)
  • prudence,
  • Canniness,
  • thought.
  •cognition (noun)
  • contrivance.
  •contraption (noun)
  • rube goldberg devices.
  •contrivance (noun)
  • convenience,
  • stratagem,
  • devisal,
  • lash-up.
  •craft (noun)
  • dis ingenuities,
  • disingenuities,
  • cageynesses,
  • dis ingenuity,
  • wilinesses,
  • dis-ingenuities,
  • dis-ingenuity.
  •cunning (noun)
  • wile.
  •deus ex machina (noun)
  • god the machine,
  • god in machine,
  • happy coincidences,
  • god machine,
  • divine interventions.
  •device (noun)
  • whatsits,
  • out-fit,
  • re sort,
  • re sorts,
  • re-sorts,
  • whatchamacallits,
  • out fit,
  • rube goldberg inventions,
  • re-sort,
  • out fits,
  • out-fits.
  •discovery (noun)
  • luck out,
  • finding,
  • Algorithms,
  • formula,
  • algorithm.
  •engine (noun)
  • putt putts,
  • puttputt,
  • whats under the hood,
  • putt putt,
  • trans-formers,
  • puttputts,
  • power trains,
  • what under the hood,
  • putt-putts,
  • trans former,
  • whats under hood,
  • what's under hood,
  • trans formers,
  • what under hood,
  • trans-former.
  •excogitation (noun)
  • excogitation,
  • formulations,
  • formulation.
  •expediency (noun)
  • makedo,
  • makedos,
  • make dos,
  • make-dos.
  •expediency/expedience (noun)
  • band-aids,
  • bandaid,
  • re courses,
  • band aids,
  • bandaids,
  • re-course,
  • re-courses,
  • easy way outs,
  • re course.
  •expedient (noun)
  • gency.
  •gadget (noun)
  • thingamajig,
  • instrument,
  • equipment,
  • apparatus,
  • whatsis,
  • gimcrack.
  •gizmo (noun)
  • mechanical devices.
  •plan (noun)
  • anticipation,
  • blueprint,
  • conception,
  • intention,
  • aim,
  • chart,
  • proposition,
  • design,
  • idea,
  • arrangement,
  • expectation,
  • premeditation,
  • coordination.
  •plan, fabrication (noun)
  • coinage,
  • formation,
  • twist,
  • angle,
  • slant,
  • trick,
  • machination,
  • switch,
  • measure,
  • gimmick,
  • ruse,
  • project.
  •plot (noun)
  • covins,
  • connivings.
  •product (noun)
  • byproduct,
  • decoctions,
  • artifact,
  • Artifacts,
  • After-math,
  • synthetics,
  • product,
  • decoction.
  •resource (noun)
  • quickwittedness,
  • quick-wittedness.
  •resourcefulness (noun)
  • re sourcefulness,
  • re-sourcefulnesses,
  • re sourcefulnesses,
  • re-sourcefulness.
  •stratagem (noun)
  • trick of the trade,
  • game,
  • Trojan Horse,
  • wrinkle,
  • tactics,
  • trickery,
  • deception,
  • trap,
  • subterfuge,
  • feint,
  • pitfall.
  •thing (noun)
  • in-formation,
  • in formations,
  • in-formations,
  • in-dividual,
  • in dividual.
  •way (noun)
  • MODU.
  •wile (noun)
  • chicanes,
  • dissimulation,
  • schemings,
  • skullduggery,
  • chicane.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • clunker,
  • toy,
  • big beast,
  • longueur,
  • set piece,
  • filler,
  • scene,
  • subtitle,
  • postscript,
  • rig,
  • spoiler,
  • workhorse,
  • plant,
  • kit,
  • quotation,
  • automation,
  • quote,
  • technology,
  • subtext,
  • sound effects,
  • Accouterments,
  • backstory,
  • leaven,
  • comic relief,
  • black box,
  • sequence,
  • soliloquy.
  •
  • effect,
  • ending,
  • hardware,
  • title,
  • aside,
  • footage,
  • ad lib,
  • prologue,
  • speech,
  • embellishment,
  • setting,
  • wheel,
  • processor.
  •
  • installation,
  • L,
  • part,
  • unit.
  •
  • credit.
  •
  • score.

Paraphrases for Contrivance:

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    invention.

Antonyms for Contrivance:

• n.

  • plan, fabrication
    ignorance, disorganization.
  • Other antonyms:
    candor, fairness, honesty, sincerity, artlessness, frankness, guilelessness, innocence, simplicity, facsimile, openness, truth, ingenuousness.

Contrivance Sentence Examples:

• Thanks to Ellen's contrivance and to the progress of Joanna's own ambition - rising out of its fulfilment in the sphere of the material into the sphere of style and manners - the sisters now lived the lives of two well - to - do ladies.

• All this you will understand, however, was a moral contrivance, not a physical one.

Homophones for Contrivance:

• center punch, centre of buoyancy, center of mass, centropomus, centre of mass, counterpunch, center of buoyancy.

Hyponym for Contrivance:

• n.

  • cognition
    conception, design, organisation, arrangement, excogitation, organization, system, innovation, invention.