Synonyms of widgets

widgets

noun

plural of widget

as in gadgets

an interesting and often novel device with a practical use

manufacturers of all kinds of widgets for the do-it-yourselfer

Synonyms & Similar Words

• gadgets
• tools
• appliances
• gizmos
• mechanisms
• accessories
• contraptions
• innovations
• jiggers
• contrivances
• gimmicks
• instruments
• inventions
• implements
• utensils
• tricks
• ingenuities
• adjuncts
• doodads
• doohickeys
• thingamajigs
• thingamabobs
• dinguses
• thingummies
• hickeys
• hootenannies

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of widgets

The smart home hub will have a home screen, widgets, and clock faces like those on an Apple Watch, and an interface that looks like a combination of iOS, tvOS, and watchOS. — Bee Wertheimer, PC Magazine, 21 Sep. 2026

Use customizable widgets for easy access to your family’s calendars, to-do lists, local weather, favorite music, and more. — Katrina Cossey, Parents, 19 Sep. 2026

Aside from this feature, iOS 27 also includes a way to adjust the opacity of Liquid Glass, new icon designs, extra-large widgets, and new volume settings for ringtones, alarms, timers, and alerts. — Emma Roth, The Verge, 9 Sep. 2026

When the phone is open, the display shows two home-screen pages with Today View (a vertically scrolling list of customizable widgets) on the left. — Todd Spangler, Variety, 9 Sep. 2026

However, few incorporate a display that can be used as a clock, notification center or a place to store OS widgets. — Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026

These guys are being treated like disposable widgets, not human beings. — Howard Berkes, NPR, 5 Aug. 2026

Display your own photos, widgets like weather, calendars, stick notes and more. — Tantse Walter, Space.com, 26 June 2026

Over the last few years, home service operators were sold an explosion of AI tools—voice agents, chat widgets, follow-up bots. — Lily Mae Lazarus, Fortune, 23 June 2026