Definition for Scheme:

• sk[= e]m, n. plan: something contrived to be done: purpose: plot: a combination of things by design: a specific organisation for some end: an illustrative diagram: a system: a statement in tabular form: a representation of the aspect of the heavenly bodies at a given time.-- v.t. to plan: to contrive.-- v.i. to form a plan.-- n. SCHEME'- ARCH, an arch less than a semicircle.-- adj. SCHEME'FUL.-- n. SCH[= E]' MER.-- adj. SCH[= E]' MING, given to forming schemes: intriguing.-- adv. SCH[= E]' MINGLY, by scheming.-- n. SCH[= E]' MIST, a schemer: an astrologer.-- adj. SCH[= E]' MY, cunning: intriguing. [ L. schema-- Gr. sch[= e]ma, form-- echein, sch[= e]sein, to hold.]

Synonyms for Scheme:

• n.

  •
  • planning.
  •
  • game plan,
  • layout,
  • means,
  • mode.
  •
  • cabal,
  • collude,
  • collusion,
  • connivance,
  • conspiracy,
  • conspire,
  • hatch,
  • machination.
  •calculation (noun)
  • algebra,
  • algorithm,
  • appraisal,
  • approximation,
  • arithmetic,
  • assessment,
  • calculation,
  • calculus,
  • computation,
  • conclusion,
  • consideration,
  • deduction,
  • determination,
  • division,
  • enumeration,
  • estimation,
  • evaluation,
  • inference,
  • judgement,
  • mathematics,
  • measurement,
  • method,
  • multiplication,
  • presumption,
  • quantification,
  • reckoning,
  • statistics,
  • supposition,
  • system,
  • thought,
  • triangulation,
  • valuation.
  •cognition (noun)
  • strategy.
  •composition (noun)
  • makeup.
  •conspiracy (noun)
  • complot,
  • countermine,
  • counterplot,
  • Covin,
  • put-up job,
  • little game.
  •course of action (noun)
  • arrangement,
  • blueprint,
  • chart,
  • codification,
  • contrivance,
  • design,
  • device,
  • diagram,
  • disposition,
  • draft,
  • expedient,
  • game plan,
  • layout,
  • order,
  • ordering,
  • outline,
  • pattern,
  • plan,
  • presentation,
  • program,
  • project,
  • proposal,
  • proposition,
  • purpose,
  • schedule,
  • schema,
  • strategy,
  • suggestion,
  • system,
  • tactics,
  • theory.
  •format (noun)
  • formula.
  •idea (noun)
  • Significancy.
  •intention (noun)
  • agenda,
  • aim,
  • ambition,
  • approach,
  • choice,
  • expectation,
  • forecast,
  • forethought,
  • goal,
  • idea,
  • intention,
  • object,
  • policy,
  • proposal,
  • prospectus,
  • scenario,
  • strategy,
  • will,
  • wish.
  •line (noun)
  • course of action,
  • line.
  •method (noun)
  • course,
  • discipline,
  • manner,
  • mechanism,
  • process,
  • schema,
  • tactic,
  • technique,
  • trajectory,
  • way.
  •order (noun)
  • codification.
  •plan (noun)
  • anticipation,
  • arrangement,
  • blueprint,
  • conception,
  • contrivance,
  • coordination,
  • invention,
  • premeditation,
  • proposition.
  •plot, maneuver to get result (noun)
  • action,
  • angle,
  • brainchild,
  • cabal,
  • conspiracy,
  • dodge,
  • game,
  • gimmick,
  • hookup,
  • hustle,
  • hype,
  • intrigue,
  • machination,
  • picture,
  • pitch,
  • ploy,
  • practice,
  • ruse,
  • scenario,
  • scene,
  • setup,
  • shift,
  • story,
  • stratagem,
  • subterfuge,
  • trick,
  • twist,
  • Covin,
  • put-up job,
  • frame-up.
  •resource (noun)
  • expedient.
  •scheme (noun)
  • connive,
  • dodge,
  • dodging,
  • intrigue,
  • outline,
  • schema,
  • strategy.
  •stratagem (noun)
  • gamesmanship.
  •texture (noun)
  • texture,
  • warp and woof.
  •venture (noun)
  • activity,
  • adventure,
  • affair,
  • deed,
  • enterprise,
  • exploit,
  • feat,
  • initiative,
  • performance,
  • procedure,
  • production,
  • project,
  • pursuit,
  • task,
  • undertaking.

• v.

  •calculate (verb)
  • account,
  • add,
  • appraise,
  • approximate,
  • assess,
  • calculate,
  • compute,
  • conclude,
  • consider,
  • count,
  • deduce,
  • determine,
  • divide,
  • enumerate,
  • estimate,
  • evaluate,
  • figure,
  • gauge,
  • guess,
  • infer,
  • judge,
  • measure,
  • multiply,
  • plan,
  • plot,
  • presume,
  • program,
  • quantify,
  • quantize,
  • rank,
  • rate,
  • rationalize,
  • reckon,
  • schedule,
  • score,
  • study,
  • sum,
  • suppose,
  • surmise,
  • systematize,
  • tally,
  • think,
  • total,
  • triangulate,
  • value,
  • weigh.
  •cognition (verb)
  • connive,
  • intrigue.
  •intend (verb)
  • choose,
  • expect,
  • intend,
  • mean,
  • mind,
  • propose,
  • resolve.
  •order (verb)
  • adjust,
  • arrange,
  • array,
  • balance,
  • cast,
  • categorize,
  • chart,
  • class,
  • classify,
  • collate,
  • compose,
  • control,
  • design,
  • devise,
  • establish,
  • fix,
  • form,
  • frame,
  • grade,
  • group,
  • harmonize,
  • integrate,
  • maintain,
  • marshal,
  • mediate,
  • normalize,
  • orchestrate,
  • order,
  • organize,
  • pigeonhole,
  • place,
  • prepare,
  • regulate,
  • right,
  • schematize,
  • screen,
  • separate,
  • set,
  • settle,
  • shape,
  • sift,
  • sort,
  • stabilize,
  • stratify,
  • structure,
  • subordinate,
  • support,
  • type,
  • unify,
  • unsnarl,
  • Methodize.
  •plan (verb)
  • anticipate,
  • conceive,
  • contrive,
  • coordinate,
  • invent,
  • premeditate.
  •venture (verb)
  • act,
  • campaign,
  • endeavor,
  • initiate,
  • maneuver,
  • perform,
  • proceed,
  • pursue,
  • undertake,
  • venture.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • caper,
  • connivance,
  • conspire,
  • gamesmanship,
  • hocus-pocus,
  • hustle,
  • machinate,
  • prank,
  • ruse,
  • scam,
  • setup,
  • subterfuge,
  • strategize,
  • put-up job.
  •
  • collude,
  • collusion,
  • concoct,
  • conspiracy,
  • device,
  • fiddle,
  • game plan,
  • hatch,
  • layout,
  • machination,
  • road,
  • snare,
  • suggestion,
  • whitewash.
  •
  • routine.
  •
  • formulate,
  • trap.
  •
  • lay.
  •aim
  • purpose.
  •intend
  • have in mind.
  •plan
  • mapping.
  •plot
  • cabal.
  •valuate
  • valuate.
  •Other relevant words:
  • absolutely,
  • abstract,
  • action,
  • acute,
  • adumbration,
  • angle,
  • announcement,
  • apparatus,
  • approximately,
  • architectonics,
  • architecture,
  • argument,
  • art,
  • artful,
  • artifice,
  • aspiration,
  • astute,
  • atlas,
  • atmosphere,
  • attack,
  • attract,
  • avenue,
  • avoidance,
  • background,
  • bag of tricks,
  • behaviour,
  • bill of fare,
  • blind,
  • bluff,
  • brainchild,
  • brew,
  • bright,
  • cabal,
  • calendar,
  • caper,
  • cartography,
  • catalog,
  • catastrophe,
  • catch,
  • channel,
  • characterization,
  • chew over,
  • chicane,
  • chicanery,
  • chiefly,
  • chouse,
  • clever,
  • coarsely,
  • codification,
  • collude,
  • collusion,
  • color,
  • comparable,
  • completely,
  • complex,
  • complication,
  • complicity,
  • complot,
  • composition,
  • concept,
  • concoct,
  • conduct,
  • confederacy,
  • configuration,
  • conjecture,
  • conjure up,
  • connivance,
  • connive,
  • conspectus,
  • conspiracy,
  • conspire,
  • constitution,
  • construct,
  • construction,
  • contemplate,
  • contemplation,
  • context,
  • continuity,
  • cook up,
  • copy,
  • cosmos,
  • counsel,
  • countermine,
  • counterplot,
  • coup,
  • course of action,
  • craft,
  • crafty,
  • craving,
  • create,
  • curriculum,
  • curve,
  • curve ball,
  • custom,
  • deceit,
  • deception,
  • deem,
  • delineate,
  • delineation,
  • denouement,
  • describe,
  • description,
  • descriptive,
  • designing,
  • desire,
  • development,
  • device,
  • diagram,
  • direction,
  • dirty trick,
  • dispensation,
  • display,
  • disposition,
  • dodge,
  • dodging,
  • draft,
  • draught,
  • draw up,
  • drawing,
  • dream,
  • dream up,
  • drill,
  • drought,
  • effort,
  • end,
  • engineer,
  • engineering,
  • entirely,
  • envisioning,
  • episode,
  • equivalent,
  • escape,
  • especially,
  • evasion,
  • expedient,
  • exposition,
  • fable,
  • fascinate,
  • fashion,
  • feint,
  • fetch,
  • fiddle,
  • figuring,
  • finagle,
  • finesse,
  • flow chart,
  • foresight,
  • format,
  • formula,
  • formulate,
  • foul play,
  • framework,
  • gambit,
  • game,
  • game plan,
  • gamesmanship,
  • gerrymander,
  • gimmick,
  • googly,
  • graph,
  • graphic,
  • graphical,
  • ground plan,
  • grouping,
  • guideline,
  • guile,
  • hankering,
  • hardly,
  • harshly,
  • hatch,
  • have in mind,
  • heliogram,
  • hint,
  • hocus-pocus,
  • hookup,
  • hope,
  • how,
  • hustle,
  • hype,
  • hypothesis,
  • imagine,
  • incident,
  • ingenious,
  • instigate,
  • intelligent,
  • intent,
  • interesting,
  • intrigue,
  • intriguing,
  • inventive,
  • jig,
  • jockey,
  • joker,
  • juggle,
  • jugglery,
  • knavery,
  • lay,
  • lay out,
  • layout,
  • lightly,
  • line,
  • lineation,
  • lineup,
  • list,
  • listing,
  • longing,
  • lure,
  • machinate,
  • machination,
  • machinery,
  • makeup,
  • manage,
  • management,
  • manipulate,
  • manipulation,
  • manoeuvre,
  • map,
  • mapping,
  • master plan,
  • means,
  • meditate,
  • menu,
  • methodology,
  • mo,
  • mode,
  • model,
  • modus operandi,
  • mold,
  • mood,
  • motif,
  • motion,
  • motivation,
  • motive,
  • move,
  • movement,
  • mull over,
  • nearly,
  • nominate,
  • notion,
  • objective,
  • offer,
  • operate,
  • operation,
  • operations research,
  • ordering,
  • organisation,
  • organism,
  • organization,
  • originate,
  • outline,
  • pack,
  • painting,
  • panoply,
  • particularly,
  • pass,
  • path,
  • pattern,
  • perception,
  • perceptive,
  • perspective,
  • picture,
  • pitch,
  • planning,
  • ploy,
  • point,
  • practice,
  • prank,
  • prearrange,
  • prearrangement,
  • precaution,
  • precis,
  • predetermine,
  • premeditated,
  • present,
  • presentation,
  • prevarication,
  • principle,
  • proffer,
  • programme,
  • projection,
  • prospect,
  • protocol,
  • prototype,
  • provision,
  • pull strings,
  • purpose,
  • put forward,
  • put over,
  • quick,
  • quick-witted,
  • quite,
  • racket,
  • radiograph,
  • rather,
  • rationale,
  • rationalization,
  • realistic,
  • reason,
  • recognition,
  • recommendation,
  • red herring,
  • regulation,
  • representation,
  • resolution,
  • resourceful,
  • rig,
  • rigging,
  • road,
  • roughly,
  • route,
  • routine,
  • rudely,
  • rule,
  • ruse,
  • scam,
  • scene,
  • schematic,
  • schematization,
  • scheming,
  • script,
  • set up,
  • setup,
  • sharp,
  • shenanigan,
  • shift,
  • shrewd,
  • shuffle,
  • shunning,
  • similar,
  • sketch,
  • slate,
  • sleight,
  • sleight of hand,
  • slenderly,
  • slightly,
  • slimly,
  • snare,
  • somewhat,
  • sop,
  • spectrogram,
  • speculate,
  • speculation,
  • standard operating procedure,
  • story,
  • stratagem,
  • stunt,
  • subject,
  • subterfuge,
  • suggestion,
  • summary,
  • swing,
  • switch,
  • syllabus,
  • synopsis,
  • system of rules,
  • systematization,
  • table,
  • table of contents,
  • tactics,
  • target,
  • texture,
  • theme,
  • theory,
  • think up,
  • tone,
  • tool,
  • topic,
  • tradition,
  • trap,
  • trick,
  • trickery,
  • turning away,
  • twist,
  • unevenly,
  • unit,
  • valuate,
  • view,
  • violently,
  • vision,
  • vivid,
  • wangle,
  • weapon,
  • wheeze,
  • whitewash,
  • wile,
  • wont,
  • work,
  • work out,
  • work up,
  • wrinkle,
  • yearning,
  • yet,
  • Anagnorisis,
  • Double dealing,
  • Envisaging,
  • Envisagement,
  • Forethink,
  • Ichnography,
  • Lobbying,
  • Maneuvering,
  • Manoeuvring,
  • Manipulating,
  • Plotting,
  • Schematism,
  • Sciagraph,
  • Scotograph,
  • Significancy,
  • Underplot,
  • Wire-pulling,
  • games,
  • wires,
  • peripeteia,
  • strings,
  • ways and means,
  • make up,
  • Contriving,
  • Covin,
  • Cun,
  • Preconcert,
  • Precontrive,
  • Predesign,
  • Preorder,
  • Preresolve,
  • Guidelines,
  • connections,
  • deals,
  • schemes,
  • charting,
  • blueprinting,
  • ploys,
  • ropes,
  • intrigues,
  • finagling,
  • graphing,
  • strategize,
  • angle for,
  • as if,
  • mythos,
  • put forth,
  • warp and woof,
  • wheel and deal,
  • sew up,
  • local color,
  • put-up job,
  • reflect on,
  • subplot,
  • slant,
  • tantamount to,
  • pack the deal,
  • similar to,
  • lay plans,
  • play games,
  • be without,
  • be of consequence,
  • be up to,
  • consult with,
  • dirty deal,
  • frame-up,
  • little game,
  • meditate on,
  • reflect upon,
  • wind-up,
  • dirty work,
  • stack the cards,
  • grift,
  • bosey,
  • ponder over,
  • rising action,
  • strategic plan,
  • tactical plan,
  • working plan,
  • strategem,
  • wirepulling,
  • practises,
  • ficelle,
  • sequence of events,
  • lobbyism,
  • falling action.

Antonyms for Scheme:

• n.

  • course of action
    disorder, disorganization.
  • plot, maneuver to get result
    honesty.

• Other antonyms:

  • n. t.
    chance, chaos, disorder, disorganisation, disorganization, honesty, put on the line, come to pass, stumble on, hit upon, draw lots, go out on a limb, have a fling at, play with fire, playing with fire, put it on the line, roll the dice, run the risk, skate on thin ice, stick neck out, take shot in the dark, tempt fortune, toss up, go out on limb.