Associations to the word «Contrivance»
Noun
Adjective
- Ingenious
- Mechanical
- Clumsy
- Admirable
- Cunning
- Skilful
- Invented
- Rude
- Contrived
- Clever
- Skillful
- Marvellous
- Handy
- Curious
- Innumerable
- Wonderful
- Elaborate
- Ignorant
- Brute
- Requisite
- Concealed
- Artificial
- Mischievous
- Observable
- Infernal
- Manifest
- Convenient
- Primitive
- Whereby
- Frail
- Invaluable
- Kindred
- Improbable
- Fitted
- Effected
- Practised
- Marvelous
- Seldom
- Apt
- Ornamental
- Hither
- Charming
- Vegetable
- Singular
- Simple
Wiktionary
CONTRIVANCE, noun. A (mechanical) device to perform a certain task
CONTRIVANCE, noun. A means, such as an elaborate plan or strategy, to accomplish a certain objective
CONTRIVANCE, noun. Something overly artful or artificial
Dictionary definition
CONTRIVANCE, noun. A device or control that is very useful for a particular job.
CONTRIVANCE, noun. The faculty of contriving; inventive skill; "his skillful contrivance of answers to every problem".
CONTRIVANCE, noun. An elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade; "his testimony was just a contrivance to throw us off the track".
CONTRIVANCE, noun. An artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc.; "the plot contained too many improbable contrivances to be believable".
CONTRIVANCE, noun. Any improvised arrangement for temporary use.
CONTRIVANCE, noun. The act of devising something.
Wise words
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing
in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in
the hands of one who knows how to combine them.