Contrivance - synonyms

Total 244 synonym synonyms found for contrivance.

Charlie McCarthy

action

ad hoc measure

agent

anagnorisis

ancilla

angle

answer

apparatus

appliance

approach

architectonics

architecture

argument

arrangement

art

artful dodge

artifice

atmosphere

attack

authorship

background

beginning

blind

blueprint

blueprinting

brainchild

cabal

calculation

catastrophe

characterization

charting

chicanery

coinage

collusion

color

complication

complicity

complot

conception

concoction

confederacy

connivance

conspiracy

continuity

contraption

contriving

countermove

counterplot

coup

course of action

covin

craft

creation

creative effort

creature

cute trick

deceit

deep-laid plot

demarche

denouement

design

development

device

devising

disposition

dodge

dummy

dupe

effort

engineering

enterprise

envisagement

episode

expedient

fable

fabrication

fakement

falling action

feint

fetch

figuring

finagling

finesse

foresight

forethought

frame-up

gadget

gambit

game

generation

gimcrack

gimmick

gizmo

go-between

graphing

grift

ground plan

guidelines

hand tool

handmaid

handmaiden

hatching

idea

implement

improvisation

incident

instrument

intention

interagent

intermediary

intermediate

intermedium

intrigue

invention

jugglery

jury-rig

jury-rigged expedient

knavery

last expedient

last resort

last shift

layout

lever

line

lineup

little game

local color

long-range plan

machination

makeshift

making do

maneuver

maneuvering

manipulation

mapping

master plan

means

measure

mechanical device

mechanism

mediator

medium

method

methodology

midwife

minion

mintage

mood

motif

move

movement

mythos

operations research

organ

organization

origination

pawn

peripeteia

pis aller

plan

planning

planning function

plaything

plot

plotting

ploy

power tool

prearrangement

precision tool

procedure

program

program of action

puppet

racket

rationalization

recognition

red herring

resort

resource

rigging

rising action

ruse

schedule

schema

schematism

schematization

scheme

scheme of arrangement

schemery

scheming

secondary plot

servant

setup

shake-up

shift

slant

slave

sleight

solution

speed tool

step

stooge

stopgap

story

stratagem

strategic plan

strategy

stroke

stroke of policy

structure

subject

subplot

subterfuge

switch

system

systematization

tactic

tactical plan

tactics

temporary expedient

the big picture

the picture

thematic development

theme

tone

tool

topic

toy

trick

trickery

trump

twist

underplot

utensil

vehicle

way

web of intrigue

wile

wily device

wire-pulling

working hypothesis

working plan

working proposition