What is another word for makeshift?
509 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ mˈe͡ɪkʃɪft], [ mˈeɪkʃɪft], [ m_ˈeɪ_k_ʃ_ɪ_f_t]Table of Contents
Similar words for makeshift:- alternate (adjective)
- crude (adjective)
- extemporaneous/extemporary (adjective)
- improvised (adjective)
- interim (adjective)
- jerry-built (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- provisional (adjective)
- quick-and-dirty (adjective)
- rough-and-ready (adjective)
- rude (adjective)
- shoddy (adjective)
- short-range (adjective)
- short-term (adjective)
- spur-of-the-moment (adjective)
- stopgap (adjective)
- substitute (adjective)
- synthetic (adjective)
- tasteless (adjective)
- temporary (adjective)
- tentative (adjective)
- unprepared (adjective)
- unprocessed (adjective)
- unreliable (adjective)
- weak (adjective)
- off the cuff (adjective, adverb)
- off the cuff (adverb)
- off the cuff (adverb)
- other relevant words (adverb)
- device (noun)
- excuse (noun)
- expediency (noun)
- expediency/expedience (noun)
- expedient (noun)
- impermanent (noun)
- improvised (noun)
- makeshift (noun)
- measure (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- quick fix (noun)
- recourse (noun)
- refuge (noun)
- resort (noun)
- resource (noun)
- resourcefulness (noun)
- stopgap (noun)
- substitute (noun)
- surrogate (noun)
- temporary help (noun)
- other relevant words (verb)
- other synonyms
- alternative
- tottery
Synonyms for Makeshift:
adj.
•alternate (adjective) •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.
- 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.
- 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.
- most caretaker,
- more throwntogether,
- more thrown together,
- throwntogether,
- more caretaker,
- most throwntogether,
- most thrown together,
- most thrown-together,
- more thrown-together.
- tasteless,
- unrespectable,
- tossed out,
- synthetic,
- Autoschediastic,
- on-the-spot,
- transitional,
- by ear,
- overnight,
- weak,
- at first glance,
- jury-rigged,
- Improviso,
- broken down,
- ADHOC,
- cheaply made,
- ungraded,
- not settled,
- Improvisatory,
- IMPROV,
- on impulse,
- open for consideration,
- interim,
- roughly made,
- thought out loud,
- unproficient,
- short-range,
- pro tem,
- in the rough,
- taking for ride,
- Unconversant,
- thrown together,
- juryrigged,
- make-do,
- not final,
- inartistic,
- unwrought,
- toss out,
- unreliable,
- extemporary,
- for the time being,
- ad lib,
- tossed off,
- cheaply done,
- of inferior quality,
- rude,
- unsorted,
- schlocky,
- unfixed,
- extemporaneous,
- temporary,
- on the spot,
- snapper,
- toss off,
- supplier,
- ADLIB,
- jerry-built,
- quick-and-dirty,
- prentice,
- tentative,
- unhewn,
- crude,
- spur-of-the moment,
- Unmilled,
- make do,
- crude but effective,
- tester,
- off-the-cuff,
- wild-and-woolly,
- rough-and-ready,
- unworked,
- off top of head,
- short-term,
- thrown-together,
- probationary,
- provisionary,
- over night.
- de pendent,
- most provisionary,
- most transitional,
- more transitional,
- pro visional,
- pro-visionary,
- provisional,
- provisory,
- testest,
- pro-visional,
- pro visionary,
- more provisionary,
- de-pendent.
- 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.
- most wild and woolly,
- rough and ready,
- more wild and woolly,
- more wild-and-woolly,
- un sophisticated,
- most wild-and-woolly,
- wild and woolly.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
a. & adv.
•off the cuff (adjective, adverb)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) •Other relevant words: (adverb)n.
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•
- inferior,
- disappointing,
- undistinguished,
- suboptimal,
- unsatisfactory,
- limited,
- poor,
- inadequate,
- substandard,
- average.
- 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.
- quick fix,
- shift,
- evasion,
- resort,
- whatnot,
- expediency,
- cop-out,
- expedience,
- band aid,
- cleanup,
- cop-outs,
- rigging,
- copout,
- substitute agent,
- excuse,
- jives,
- thingamabob,
- whatchamacallit,
- refuge,
- surrogate,
- thingamabobs,
- resourcefulness,
- coverup,
- device,
- measure,
- whatnots,
- why and wherefore,
- whatsit,
- jive,
- resource,
- easy way out,
- recourse,
- cleanups,
- cover story.
v.
•Other relevant words: (verb)Other synonyms:
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- flimsy.
Paraphrases for Makeshift:
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Equivalence
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Adjective
improvised.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Adjective
interim, alternative, informal, transitional, home-made, rudimentary, primitive, Stop-gap, precarious, ad-hoc, transitory, hand-made, alternate.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Adjective
temporary, impromptu, provisional, homemade, tentative, substitute.
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Adjective
Antonyms for Makeshift:
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adj.