knack

knack

noun \ˈnak\

Definition of KNACK

1

a : a clever trick or stratagem

b : a clever way of doing something

2

: a special ready capacity that is hard to analyze or teach

3

archaic : an ingenious device; broadly : toy, knickknack

Examples of KNACK

1. <she's tried every knack in Cupid's book to get her guy to marry her>
2. <a jazz musician with an incredible knack for improvisation>

Origin of KNACK

Middle English knak

First Known Use: 14th century

Related to KNACK

Synonyms

artifice, device, dodge, fetch, flimflam, gambit, gimmick, jig, juggle, trick, play, ploy, scheme, shenanigan, sleight, stratagem, wile

Related Words

bluff, end run, feint; cheating, chicanery, cozenage, craft, crookery, cunning, deception, dupery, duplicity, fakery, jugglery, legerdemain, skulduggery (or skullduggery), subterfuge, swindling, trickery; fraud, gaff, hoax, sham, swindle; blind, front, smoke screen

Near Antonyms

disability, handicap, inability, incapacity; shortcoming, weakness

See Synonym Discussion at gift

Rhymes with KNACK

back, black, Braque, clack, claque, crack, flack, flak, hack, jack, lac, lack, lakh, mac, Mac, pack, plaque, quack, rack, sac, sack, sacque, shack, slack, smack, snack, stack, tach, tack, thwack, track, Wac, wack, whack, wrack, yak