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plural of contrivance
Synonyms & Antonyms of contrivances
1
an interesting and often novel device with a practical use
- a new contrivance for cleaning computer keyboards
Synonyms for contrivances
- appliances,
- contraptions,
- gadgets,
- gimmicks,
- gizmos
- (also gismos),
- jiggers,
- widgets
Words Related to contrivances
- accessories
- (also accessaries),
- adjuncts
- dinguses,
- doodads,
- doohickeys
- (also doohickies),
- hickeys,
- hootenannies
- [chiefly dialect],
- thingamabobs,
- thingamajigs
- (or thingumajigs),
- thingummies
2
something (as a device) created for the first time through the use of the imagination
- despite the many modern contrivances for saving time and labor, we seem to have less leisure and energy than ever before
Synonyms for contrivances
Words Related to contrivances
- dreams,
- fantasies
- (also phantasies),
- pictures,
- visions
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