We found 22 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word contrivance:
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 General (20 matching dictionaries)
- contrivance: Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info]
- contrivance: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
- contrivance: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
- contrivance: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
- Contrivance: Wiktionary [home, info]
- contrivance: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
- contrivance: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
- contrivance: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
- Contrivance, contrivance: Dictionary.com [home, info]
- contrivance: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
- Contrivance: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
- contrivance: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
- contrivance: Rhymezone [home, info]
- Contrivance: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
- contrivance: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
- contrivance: Free Dictionary [home, info]
- contrivance: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
- contrivance: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
- contrivance: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
- contrivance: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
Computing (1 matching dictionary)
- contrivance: Encyclopedia [home, info]
Science (1 matching dictionary)
- contrivance: Evolution Glossary [home, info]
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Quick definitions (contrivance)
▸ noun: the faculty of contriving; inventive skill ("His skillful contrivance of answers to every problem")
▸ noun: an artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc. ("The plot contained too many improbable contrivances to be believable")
▸ noun: an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade ("His testimony was just a contrivance to throw us off the track")
▸ noun: the act of devising something
▸ noun: any improvised arrangement for temporary use
▸ noun: a device that is very useful for a particular job
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