Word Meanings - MACHINATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of machinating. Shak. 2. That which is devised; a device; a hostile or treacherous scheme; an artful design or plot. Devilish machinations come to naught. Milton. His ingenious machinations had failed. Macaulay.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MACHINATION)

• Artifice
• manoeuvre
• cheat
• wile
• contrivance
• craft
• trick
• fraud
• machination
• punning
• imposture
• stratagem
• Conspiracy
• Intrigue
• cabal
• plot
• treason
• treachery
• coalition
• Cabal
• conspiracy
• artifice
• design
• manoeuvres
• cunning
• duplicity
• trickery
• chicanery
• love affair
• amour
• ruse
• Scheme
• Plan
• project
• purpose
• draft
• proposal
• device
• theory
• intrigue
• Stratagem
• tactics
• generalship
• plan
• deceit
• imposition

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of MACHINATION)

• Enlighten
• guide
• remunerate
• compensate
• undeceive
• disabuse
• Supply
• replenish
• import
• Recal
• withdraw
• draw
• retract
• pull
• attract
• rebound
• recoil
• adduce
• revert
• rebate
• Chance
• risk
• hazard
• revoke
• Miscalculate
• venture
• stake

Related words: (words related to MACHINATION)

• AMOUR PROPRE
  Self-love; self-esteem.
• CHANCELLERY
  Chancellorship. Gower.
• HAZARDIZE
  A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. Herself had run into that hazardize. Spenser.
• PROJECTION
  The representation of something; delineation; plan; especially, the representation of any object on a perspective plane, or such a delineation as would result were the chief points of the object thrown forward upon the plane, each in the direction
• DESIGN
  drawing, dessein a plan or scheme; all, ultimately, from L. designare to designate; de- + signare to mark, mark out, signum mark, sign. See 1. To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace
• REVOKER
  One who revokes.
• CRAFTY
  1. Relating to, or characterized by, craft or skill; dexterous. "Crafty work." Piers Plowman. 2. Possessing dexterity; skilled; skillful. A noble crafty man of trees. Wyclif. 3. Skillful at deceiving others; characterized by craft; cunning; wily.
• DESIGNATE
  Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
• ARTIFICER
  A military mechanic, as a blacksmith, carpenter, etc.; also, one who prepares the shells, fuses, grenades, etc., in a military laboratory. Syn. -- Artisan; artist. See Artisan. (more info) 1. An artistic worker; a mechanic or manufacturer; one
• SUPPLYMENT
  A supplying or furnishing; supply. Shak.
• REVERT
  To change back. See Revert, v. i. To revert a series , to treat a series, as y = a + bx + cx2 + etc., where one variable y is expressed in powers of a second variable x, so as to find therefrom the second variable x, expressed in a series arranged
• PURPOSELESS
  Having no purpose or result; objectless. Bp. Hall. -- Pur"pose*less*ness, n.
• IMPORTUNELY
  In an importune manner.
• VENTURESOME
  Inclined to venture; not loth to run risk or danger; venturous; bold; daring; adventurous; as, a venturesome boy or act. -- Ven"ture*some*ly, adv. -- Ven"ture*some*ness, n.
• RETRACTOR
  One who, or that which, retracts. Specifically: In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel.
• PROJECTMENT
  Design; contrivance; projection. Clarendon.
• CUNNINGNESS
  Quality of being cunning; craft.
• COALITIONIST
  One who joins or promotes a coalition; one who advocates coalition.
• ATTRACTABILITY
  The quality or fact of being attractable. Sir W. Jones.
• TRICK
  The whole number of cards played in one round, and consisting of as many cards as there are players. On one nice trick depends the general fate. Pope. (more info) draw; akin to LG. trekken, MHG. trecken, trechen, Dan. trække, and 1. An artifice
• DISVENTURE
  A disadventure. Shelton.
• SADDUCEEISM; SADDUCISM
  The tenets of the Sadducees.
• KINGCRAFT
  The craft of kings; the art of governing as a sovereign; royal policy. Prescott.
• OUTPARAMOUR
  To exceed in the number of mistresses. Shak.
• VORTEX THEORY
  The theory, advanced by Thomson on the basis of investigation by Helmholtz, that the atoms are vortically moving ring-shaped masses (or masses of other forms having a similar internal motion) of a homogeneous, incompressible, frictionless fluid.