contrivance
Meanings
- a device or control that is very useful for a particular job
- the faculty of contriving; inventive skill;
- "his skillful contrivance of answers to every problem"
- an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade;
- "his testimony was just a contrivance to throw us off the track"
- an artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc.;
- "the plot contained too many improbable contrivances to be believable"
- any improvised arrangement for temporary use
- the act of devising something
Synonyms
Scrabble Score: 18
contrivance is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordcontrivance is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
contrivance is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 23
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