Dictionary Entry
contrivance
contrivance is a 11-letter English word with 8 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act or faculty of contriving, inventing, devising, or planning. Face value is 18 in Scrabble and 23 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
11 letters · Scrabble 18 · Words With Friends 23 · 8 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The act or faculty of contriving, inventing, devising, or planning.
- 2noun
The thing contrived, invented, or planned; disposition of parts or causes by design; a scheme; plan; atrifice; arrangement.
- 3noun
the act of devising something
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- 4noun
a device or control that is very useful for a particular job
- 5noun
any improvised arrangement for temporary use
- 6noun
the faculty of contriving; inventive skill
"his skillful contrivance of answers to every problem"
- 7noun
an artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc.
"the plot contained too many improbable contrivances to be believable"
- 8noun
an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade
"his testimony was just a contrivance to throw us off the track"
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