Synonyms for Makeshift:

• adj.

  •alternate (adjective)
  • more interchanging,
  • most backup,
  • second.
  •crude (adjective)
  • more unmatured,
  • most outline,
  • in-expert,
  • rough hewn,
  • most rough-hewn,
  • un wrought,
  • un sorted,
  • more unwrought,
  • impure,
  • un worked,
  • un prepared,
  • most prentice,
  • most unwrought,
  • more unworked,
  • in expert,
  • most unsorted,
  • un taught,
  • most ungraded,
  • un proficient,
  • un-milled,
  • un formed,
  • most unmatured,
  • un-graded,
  • out line,
  • rough-hewn,
  • most rough hewn,
  • un matured,
  • un-prepared,
  • more roughhewn,
  • un polished,
  • unmatured,
  • un trained,
  • un-developed,
  • more unsorted,
  • more rough hewn,
  • un-polished,
  • un developed,
  • most unproficient,
  • un-formed,
  • untaught,
  • most unmilled,
  • un-matured,
  • un-proficient,
  • un-sorted,
  • out-line,
  • most roughhewn,
  • un-finished,
  • more ungraded,
  • more rough-hewn,
  • in rough,
  • more unmilled,
  • more prentice,
  • un graded,
  • un-trained,
  • more unproficient,
  • un-wrought,
  • un milled,
  • most unworked,
  • un-worked,
  • more outline,
  • un-taught,
  • un finished.
  •extemporaneous/extemporary (adjective)
  • more improviso,
  • ex-temporary,
  • un planned,
  • more on the spot,
  • most improv,
  • un premeditated,
  • most improvisatory,
  • un studied,
  • most jamming,
  • off top head,
  • more improv,
  • un-planned,
  • in formal,
  • snappest,
  • jamming,
  • most improviso,
  • most on-the-spot,
  • off the top head,
  • off the top of head,
  • most on the spot,
  • ex temporary,
  • more on-the-spot,
  • more jamming,
  • madeup,
  • more improvisatory,
  • un-studied,
  • un-premeditated,
  • in-formal.
  •improvised (adjective)
  • more autoschediastic,
  • more bandaid,
  • ex-temporized,
  • un-rehearsed,
  • more extemporized,
  • more band aid,
  • unrehearsed,
  • most autoschediastic,
  • most bandaid,
  • ex temporized,
  • more band-aid,
  • most extemporized,
  • most band aid,
  • fly by night,
  • un rehearsed,
  • most band-aid.
  •interim (adjective)
  • most caretaker,
  • more throwntogether,
  • more thrown together,
  • throwntogether,
  • more caretaker,
  • most throwntogether,
  • most thrown together,
  • most thrown-together,
  • more thrown-together.
  •jerry-built (adjective)
  • rickety,
  • jerry-rigged,
  • junky.
  •provisional (adjective)
  • de pendent,
  • most provisionary,
  • most transitional,
  • more transitional,
  • pro visional,
  • pro-visionary,
  • provisional,
  • provisory,
  • testest,
  • pro-visional,
  • pro visionary,
  • more provisionary,
  • de-pendent.
  •quick-and-dirty (adjective)
  • more ad-hoc,
  • quick and dirty,
  • most ad hoc,
  • most ad-hoc,
  • more ad hoc,
  • most adhoc,
  • more juryrigged,
  • more adhoc,
  • most jury-rigged,
  • most jury rigged,
  • more jury rigged,
  • jury rigged,
  • most juryrigged,
  • ad-hoc,
  • more jury-rigged.
  •rough-and-ready (adjective)
  • most wild and woolly,
  • rough and ready,
  • more wild and woolly,
  • more wild-and-woolly,
  • un sophisticated,
  • most wild-and-woolly,
  • wild and woolly.
  •rude (adjective)
  • in elegant,
  • un-civilized,
  • in experienced,
  • more unconversant,
  • in-experienced,
  • un-hewn,
  • un hewn,
  • un-refined,
  • most unhewn,
  • most inartistic,
  • more unhewn,
  • un-conversant,
  • Unfashioned,
  • un refined,
  • un conversant,
  • roughhewn,
  • un fashioned,
  • un cultivated,
  • un civilized,
  • more inartistic,
  • Rudimental,
  • un-fashioned,
  • more unfashioned,
  • most unconversant,
  • in-artistic,
  • most unfashioned,
  • in-elegant,
  • in artistic,
  • un-cultivated.
  •shoddy (adjective)
  • in-glorious,
  • dis-honorable,
  • not up snuff,
  • shoddy,
  • in glorious,
  • dis-reputable,
  • not up to snuff,
  • not snuff,
  • most unrespectable,
  • dis honorable,
  • brokendown,
  • more unrespectable,
  • dis creditable,
  • not to snuff,
  • un respectable,
  • dis-creditable,
  • dis reputable,
  • un-respectable,
  • dis-graceful,
  • dis graceful.
  •short-range (adjective)
  • tactical.
  •short-term (adjective)
  • short term,
  • shortterm.
  •spur-of-the-moment (adjective)
  • spur-of-the-moment,
  • spur of the moment.
  •stopgap (adjective)
  • rough and tumble,
  • throwaway,
  • temp.
  •substitute (adjective)
  • vicarial,
  • proxier,
  • replacement,
  • Substitutive.
  •synthetic (adjective)
  • more fabricated,
  • more constructed,
  • un-natural,
  • most constructed,
  • most fabricated.
  •tasteless (adjective)
  • lowdown,
  • low-down-and-dirty,
  • low-down.
  •temporary (adjective)
  • slapdash,
  • band-aid,
  • hit-or-miss.
  •tentative (adjective)
  • most probationary,
  • un settled,
  • unconfirmed,
  • in-definite,
  • subject change,
  • un decided,
  • more unconfirmed,
  • more probationary,
  • un-confirmed,
  • un-settled,
  • most unconfirmed,
  • un-decided,
  • un confirmed,
  • in definite.
  •unprepared (adjective)
  • ill-considered,
  • haphazard,
  • undevised,
  • impromptu,
  • unprepared.
  •unprocessed (adjective)
  • unprocessed.
  •unreliable (adjective)
  • un convincing,
  • in accurate,
  • un truest,
  • un sure,
  • mis taken,
  • un-truest,
  • un-dependable,
  • under-handed,
  • un dependable,
  • un-truer,
  • un truer,
  • un faithful,
  • under-hand,
  • under handed,
  • in-constant,
  • pre-tended,
  • un reliable,
  • un-faithful,
  • un-convincing,
  • un-sure,
  • under hand,
  • un-reliable,
  • un-trustworthy.
  •weak (adjective)
  • weakest,
  • Impuissant,
  • out of gas,
  • forceless,
  • in firm.

• a. & adv.

  •off the cuff (adjective, adverb)
  • off the hip.

• adv.

  •off the cuff (adverb)
  • off the top ones head,
  • off top of one head,
  • off top one's head,
  • spur of moment,
  • off top one head,
  • more extemporaneously,
  • off top ones head,
  • off the top of one head,
  • off the top one head,
  • off top of one's head,
  • off top of ones head,
  • spur the moment,
  • most extemporaneously,
  • off hip,
  • off cuff,
  • off the top one's head,
  • spur moment.

• adv

  •off the cuff (adverb)
  • off the top of one's head.

• n.

  •
  • inferior,
  • disappointing,
  • undistinguished,
  • suboptimal,
  • unsatisfactory,
  • limited,
  • poor,
  • inadequate,
  • substandard,
  • average.
  •
  • expedient,
  • help.
  •device (noun)
  • out-fit,
  • rube goldberg inventions,
  • out fit,
  • out fits,
  • whatchamacallits,
  • out-fits,
  • whatsits.
  •excuse (noun)
  • cover stories,
  • pre-text,
  • copouts,
  • song dance,
  • co-pout,
  • cop outs,
  • dis-guises,
  • co-pouts,
  • pre text,
  • pre-texts,
  • co pout,
  • why and wherefores,
  • why wherefore,
  • dis guises,
  • pre texts,
  • co pouts,
  • de-fenses,
  • why wherefores,
  • de fenses,
  • dis-guise,
  • dis guise.
  •expediency (noun)
  • make-dos,
  • makedos,
  • make dos.
  •expediency/expedience (noun)
  • de sign,
  • bandaids,
  • band-aids,
  • easy way outs,
  • band aids,
  • de-signs,
  • de signs,
  • de-sign,
  • bandaid.
  •expedient (noun)
  • gency.
  •impermanent (noun)
  • impermanent.
  •improvised (noun)
  • improvised.
  •makeshift (noun)
  • stopgap.
  •measure (noun)
  • Measures.
  •quick fix (noun)
  • quick-fix,
  • jury-rigged expedient.
  •recourse (noun)
  • stand by,
  • stand-by.
  •refuge (noun)
  • harborage,
  • hiding place,
  • stronghold,
  • harborages,
  • safe place,
  • coverts.
  •resort (noun)
  • re lief,
  • re-lief,
  • re-sort,
  • re-sorts,
  • re sorts,
  • re sort.
  •resource (noun)
  • quick-wittedness,
  • quickwittedness.
  •resourcefulness (noun)
  • re sourcefulnesses,
  • re-sourcefulnesses,
  • re sourcefulness,
  • re-sourcefulness.
  •stopgap (noun)
  • Pis Aller,
  • temporary expedient.
  •substitute (noun)
  • procurator,
  • alternative,
  • Succedanea,
  • temporaries,
  • locum tenens,
  • procurators,
  • Temps,
  • succedaneum,
  • dernier ressort,
  • changelings,
  • supplanter,
  • locum,
  • pinch-hitter,
  • changeling,
  • vicar.
  •surrogate (noun)
  • substitute agents.
  •temporary help (noun)
  • last resort.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • flimsy.
  •alternative
  • alternate.
  •tottery
  • Rattletrap.

Paraphrases for Makeshift:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    improvised.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    interim, alternative, informal, transitional, home-made, rudimentary, primitive, Stop-gap, precarious, ad-hoc, transitory, hand-made, alternate.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    temporary, impromptu, provisional, homemade, tentative, substitute.

Antonyms for Makeshift:

• adj.

  • temporary
    finished, ready, complete, permanent.
  • Other antonyms:
    former, lasting, equal, first, original, identical, same.

Homophones for Makeshift:

• misopedia, message pad, muscovite, macbeth, misfit, mineshaft, man's body, muck about, monkeypod, megapode, megabat, monkey pod, megabit, muscicapidae, mousepad, mesophyte, megapodiidae, mazopathy, mess about, megabyte.