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contrivances

noun , plural of contrivance

Synonyms and Antonyms of contrivances

1 an interesting and often novel device with a practical use

a new contrivance for cleaning computer keyboards

Synonyms of contrivances

appliances, contraptions, gadgets, gimmicks, gizmos (also gismos), jiggers, widgets

Words Related to contrivances

implements, instruments, tools, utensils

ingenuities, innovations, inventions

accessories (also accessaries), adjuncts

mechanisms, tricks

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 of contrivances

brainchildren, coinages, concoctions, creations, innovations, inventions, wrinkles

Words Related to contrivances

contraptions, devices, gadgets, gizmos (also gismos), novelties

designs, products, works

dreams, fantasies (also phantasies), pictures, visions

conceptions, originations

Near Antonyms of contrivances

carbon copies, clones, copies, dupes, duplicates, duplications, facsimiles, imitations, reduplications, replicas, replications, reproductions

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