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knack

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Synonyms and Antonyms of knack

1 a clever often underhanded means to achieve an end

tried every knack I knew to get him to spill the beans

Synonyms of knack

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

Words Related to knack

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

Phrases Synonymous with knack

sleight of hand

2 a special and usually inborn ability

a jazz musician with an incredible knack for improvisation

Synonyms of knack

aptitude, bent, endowment, faculty, flair, genius, gift, head, talent

Words Related to knack

affinity, bias, disposition, habitude, impulse, inclination, leaning, partiality, penchant, predilection, predisposition, proclivity, propensity, tendency, turn

ear, eye, mind, nose

feel, hang, instinct, touch, way

capability, competence, facility, proficiency, skill

capacity, potential, power

forte, specialism, speciality, specialty

Near Antonyms of knack

disability, handicap, inability, incapacity

shortcoming, weakness

Synonym Discussion of knack

gift, faculty, aptitude, bent, talent, genius, knack mean a special ability for doing something. gift often implies special favor by God or nature.

- the gift of singing beautifully

faculty applies to an innate or less often acquired ability for a particular accomplishment or function.

- a faculty for remembering names

aptitude implies a natural liking for some activity and the likelihood of success in it.

- a mechanical aptitude

bent is nearly equal to aptitude but it stresses inclination perhaps more than specific ability.

- a family with an artistic bent

talent suggests a marked natural ability that needs to be developed.

- has enough talent to succeed

genius suggests impressive inborn creative ability.

- has no great genius for poetry

knack implies a comparatively minor but special ability making for ease and dexterity in performance.

- the knack of getting along

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