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What is another word for
contriving
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Verb
Having an opportunity, or an intention, to arrive at a specified outcome
Present participle for to contrive of (something) using skill or ingenuity
Present participle for to make secret plans, especially to do something illicit or unlawful
Present participle for to bring about or cause something to happen
Present participle for to carry out a plan with a specific purpose in mind
Present participle for to obtain, arrange, or achieve by deceitful methods or by trickery
Present participle for to indulge in fantasies about something desired
Present participle for attempt to get
Present participle for to make a false show or pretense of
Present participle for to ascertain through analysis or investigation
Present participle for to direct or influence the behavior or development of
Present participle for to build or alter according to personal preferences or specifications
Adjective
Working in conjunction with another to deceitfully achieve one's goals
Causing to function
Noun
The action or process of inventing something, typically a process or device
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Verb
▲
Having an opportunity, or an intention, to arrive at a specified outcome
getting
arranging
finding a way
engineering a way
managing
succeeding in
organizing
US
working it
fixing it
compassing
coordinating
designing
maneuvering
US
manoeuvring
UK
organising
UK
succeeding
wangling
manipulating
engineering
finagling
machinating
finessing
masterminding
negotiating
devising
plotting
framing
scheming
planning
jockeying
working
orchestrating
fixing
rigging
pulling strings
stage-managing
playing games
directing
conspiring
pulling wires
setting up
intriguing
exploiting
conducting
controlling
choreographing
swinging
coming up with
creating
hatching
conceiving
originating
superintending
supervising
handling
effecting
cogitating
angling
achieving
laying plans
bringing off
thinking of
thinking up
putting together
steering
wheeling and dealing
hooking
inventing
promoting
trumping up
cooking up
forging
running
initiating
generating
administering
authoring
instigating
regulating
fiddling
overseeing
working out
presiding over
dreaming up
having the bright idea of
influencing
one-upping
beguiling
conniving
bluffing
hustling
colluding
playing
lobbying
constructing
concocting
doctoring
mounting
concerting
cooking
staging
operating
mobilizing
US
causing
planting
pulling off
fixing up
putting on
mobilising
UK
bringing about
executing
swinging it
hitting upon
carrying out
wrangling
elaborating
developing
shifting
projecting
passing
more ❯
“Where other managements would somehow
contrive
to squeeze double the number of rooms within the same confines, they always seems to go in the opposite direction, as though trying to see how few rooms he can incorporate.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to contrive of (something) using skill or ingenuity
devising
concocting
fabricating
manufacturing
constructing
creating
engineering
designing
planning
plotting
inventing
formulating
framing
orchestrating
scheming
stage-managing
wangling
cooking up
excogitating
hatching
improvising
thinking up
bringing about
dreaming up
effecting
procuring
becasting
causing to happen
coming up with
drumming up
fashioning
forging
forming
handling
making
making up
moving
projecting
rigging
trumping up
vamping
vamping up
working out
hitting upon
setting up
casting about
laying out
throwing together
whipping up
developing
conceiving
putting together
producing
arranging
composing
preparing
originating
organizing
US
crafting
organising
UK
shaping
drafting
drawing up
masterminding
coining
brewing
evolving
building
machinating
outlining
blueprinting
assembling
casting
brainstorming
mapping out
establishing
putting up
moulding
UK
molding
US
modelling
UK
modeling
US
choreographing
discovering
imagining
turning out
charting
scheming out
strategizing about
laying
intriguing
fixing up
pioneering
instituting
mapping
budgeting
conspiring
getting ready
sparking
hammering out
generating
conceiving of
thinking of
innovating
fixing
founding
spawning
knocking off
conjuring up
cobbling together
hitting on
sketching
knocking together
coordinating
confecting
erecting
calculating
setting out
initiating
doping out
cogitating
blocking out
working
compassing
readying
knocking up
carving out
throwing up
raising
pondering
authoring
ad-libbing
codifying
marshaling
US
marshalling
UK
envisioning
strategizing
executing
compiling
piecing
beginning
structuring
conniving
setting
playing it by ear
cultivating
launching
thrashing out
working up
rustling up
causing
colluding
inaugurating
rigging up
making arrangements for
fitting together
spitballing
begetting
fitting
planning out
synthesizing
US
thinking out
disposing
rearing
tracing
starting
arraying
ruminating
rendering
writing
regulating
managing
scheduling
bringing into being
envisaging
joining
adjusting
standardizing
US
sketching out
knocking out
roughing out
churning out
rationalizing
US
schematizing
making arrangements
faking it
synthesising
UK
constituting
methodizing
deciding
determining
sorting out
grinding out
piecing together
starting up
building up
contemplating
jacking up
spinning
shaping up
feigning
introducing
engendering
systemizing
weaving
faking
maneuvering
US
prefabbing
drawing
standardising
UK
rationalising
UK
manoeuvring
UK
figuring out
yielding
prepping
finagling
anticipating
delineating
lining up
deriving
dreaming
adapting
improvisating
fulfilling
compounding
programming
codetermining
instigating
grooming
quarterbacking
ushering in
comping
performing
materializing
US
jury-rigging
making provision
putting in place
directing
perfecting
realising
UK
realizing
US
diagramming
diagraming
materialising
UK
making ready
putting on
making do
actualizing
thinking on one's feet
winging it
completing
cutting
visualizing
US
picturing
visualising
UK
speculating
providing
dashing off
seeing to
carrying out
getting going
bringing into existence
effectuating
bringing on
seeing about
bringing
tailoring
fudging together
cobbling up
sparking off
laying the foundations of
making plans
making preparations for
preparing for
patching together
penciling in
putting in order
settling on
sculpturing
jerry-building
flying by the seat of one's pants
running up
intending
proposing
conceptualizing
US
fabling
finessing
negotiating
manipulating
processing
floating
conceptualising
UK
setting down
ordering
occasioning
inducing
uncovering
bringing forth
stumbling upon
mooting
working something out
adumbrating
propagating
maturing
batching
ranging
finding
detecting
harvesting
classifying
penning
skeletoning
roughing
mass-producing
bringing out
swinging
making up off the top of one's head
mixing up
slapping together
stirring up
premeditating
slating
sculpting
carving
hewing
stamping
fabulizing
translating into
comprising
advancing
reaching an agreement
scripting
scribing
ideating
conceiting
planning ahead
implementing
whipping out
eking out
coming upon
planning for
fictionalising
UK
fictionalizing
US
storifying
rattling off
considering
extemporizing
US
accomplishing
achieving
describing
connecting
representing
forecasting
detailing
revolutionizing
US
sequencing
working on
carpentering
reconstructing
prefabricating
edifying
superstructing
studying
elaborating
purposing
tabulating
categorizing
US
finishing
patterning
consummating
welding
sewing
deliberating
laying on
having
throwing
imaging
weighing
obtaining
getting
cranking out
thinking ahead
equipping
supplying
editing
minting
finding a way
pulling strings
tightening up
pulling together
straightening up
making uniform
hatching a plot
fangling
bearing
extemporising
UK
making it up
chalking out
steering
meditating
banging out
perpending
accoutreing
outfitting
accoutring
furnishing
patenting
parenting
procreating
settling
fixing to
laying in provisions
figuring on
reckoning on
bargaining for
roughing in
categorising
UK
systematising
UK
systematizing
US
laying plans
cogitating on
appointing
endowing
setting in motion
giving birth to
kicking off
coming out with
modernizing
US
spearheading
catalyzing
US
giving rise to
fathering
issuing
commencing
resolving
patching up
joining up
sewing up
erecting hastily
assembling hastily
setting up hastily
coming to terms about
coming to an agreement
coming to terms
pulling things together
agreeing on
setting stage
ironing out
making plans for
agreeing to
putting in motion
starting off
opening up
tossing off
minding
revolutionising
UK
bringing to pass
inducting
ringing in
catalysing
UK
modernising
UK
starting out
fitting out
getting up
smoothing the way
filling in
running
educing
mulling over
jamming
slapdashing
punting
simulating
fostering
conducting
administrating
mobilizing
US
doing offhand
elevating
making hastily
preparing hastily
preparing roughly
making roughly
putting together roughly
putting together hastily
mixing
spoofing
learning
invoking
relying on your wits
doing off the top of your head
bracing
getting off
mounting
mobilising
UK
timetabling
concerting
shamming
affecting
conjuring
allowing
imbibing
mastering
grasping
dissimulating
dissembling
dealing with
whomping up
being responsible for
straightening out
taking care of
budgeting for
getting off the ground
looking after
getting together
licking into shape
staging
evoking
acquiring
assimilating
practicing
US
guarding
summoning
picking up
taking measures
making provision for
laying the groundwork
taking steps
practising
UK
forearming oneself
taking precautions
calling
making a pretence of
making a show of
giving the appearance of
taking up
calling up
producing as by magic
training
making preparations
priming
warming up
more ❯
“The real miracle, though, is that you could
contrive
a way to have a food crisis.”
Verb
▲
Present participle for to make secret plans, especially to do something illicit or unlawful
plotting
conspiring
conniving
machinating
scheming
intriguing
colluding
compassing
putting up
planning
manoeuvring
UK
wangling
devising
maneuvering
US
caballing
hatching a plot
finagling
complotting
cogitating
angling
laying plans
forming a conspiracy
consorting
cooking up
participating in a conspiracy
coconspiring
operating
framing up
being in cahoots
getting in bed with
taking part in a conspiracy
diddling
framing
collaborating
setting up
making secret plans
cooperating
fraternizing
US
working together
sympathizing
US
fraternising
UK
sympathising
UK
working close
designing
working hand in glove
wheeling and dealing
conceiving a plan
hatching plans
engineering plans
formulating plans
hatching
working something out
putting out a contract
working against
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to bring about or cause something to happen
effecting
achieving
accomplishing
carrying out
conducting
enacting
realising
UK
realizing
US
attaining
enforcing
executing
implementing
bringing off
carrying off
carrying through
launching
engineering
performing
administering
bringing about
organising
UK
organizing
US
perpetrating
making
fulfilling
completing
fixing
consummating
doing
causing
effectuating
bringing
administrating
finalising
UK
finalizing
US
pulling off
generating
initiating
managing
provoking
putting in place
creating
discharging
producing
succeeding in
arranging for
calling forth
finishing
giving rise to
occasioning
bringing to pass
concluding
originating
rendering
setting up
actuating
engendering
precipitating
starting
causing to happen
causing to occur
making happen
wreaking
running
kindling
begetting
breeding
bringing on
catalysing
UK
catalyzing
US
drawing on
inducing
invoking
prompting
spawning
working
yielding
actualizing
beginning
putting across
resulting in
translating into
turning out
turning the trick
instilling
promoting
advancing
furthering
contributing
instigating
leading to
driving
triggering
spurring
sparking
fomenting
activating
playing a part in
culminating in
eliciting
inspiring
playing a role in
contributing to
bearing
affecting
conducing
setting off
amounting to
conducing to
bringing forth
adding up to
undertaking
making for
applying
arranging
succeeding
finishing off
establishing
encouraging
being a factor in
having a hand in
fostering
adding to
inciting
stimulating
impelling
arousing
influencing
pushing forward
cultivating
stirring up
sparking off
opening the door for
introducing
setting in motion
enabling
employing
helping
evoking
being responsible for
triggering off
touching off
procuring
putting in motion
finishing in
making possible
having the effect of
entailing
enkindling
whipping up
ending in
oiling the wheels of
forwarding
having a part in
drawing out
spelling
bringing out
being partly responsible for
imposing
providing the means for
putting into effect
putting into practice
following up
going through with
putting into action
putting through
putting into operation
following out
following through
leading
following through with
bringing to fruition
getting done
sewing up
doing one proud
bearing out
making it
making good
scoring
racking up
delivering on
perfecting
making good on
living up to
fulfilling your potential
making the grade
gaining fulfillment
getting there
nailing it
wrapping up
satisfying
clinching
reaching
prosecuting
compassing
meeting
negotiating
securing
following
observing
committing
chalking up
clocking up
notching up
transacting
acting upon
hitting
exercising
honoring
US
acting out
obeying
acquiring
striking
honouring
UK
taking care of
taking care of business
delivering the goods
following through on
abiding by
forming
arriving at
polishing off
installing
pursuing
keeping
acting on
materializing
US
materialising
UK
dispatching
nailing
heeding
earning
dealing with
seizing
landing
conquering
carrying to completion
filling
authorising
UK
bagging
making a reality
acquitting oneself of
authorizing
US
coming through
putting in force
keeping to
adhering to
conforming to
complying with
crowning
doing the trick
bringing to completion
doing justice to
topping off
rounding off
putting the final touches to
sticking to
acting in accordance with
putting the finishing touches to
commencing
finding
instituting
constituting
founding
inaugurating
staging
ticking
building
presenting
swinging
cutting
developing
making work
bringing home the bacon
polishing
refining
hacking
constructing
disposing of
designing
tackling
actionizing
following up on
standing by
assembling
capping
crafting
winding up
playing out
setting
composing
forging
machinating
fashioning
plying
determining
putting on
going that route
rigging
fabricating
casting
authoring
piecing
shaping
erecting
germinating
molding
US
serving
exacting
engaging
sailing through
putting over
doing the job
moulding
UK
responding to
doing to a turn
running with the ball
operating
working on
exerting
processing
earning one's wings
setting down
getting out of the way
making short work of
inflicting
doing to a T
bringing into existence
bringing into being
knocking together
knocking up
reifying
starting in on
actioning
taking action on
incarnating
grasping
making real
bringing to bear
serving out
bringing into effect
dealing out
bringing into play
gaining
wresting
snagging
winning
netting
legislating
declaring
passing
ringing up
logging
corporealizing
reorganizing
US
making concrete
reorganising
UK
decreeing
drafting
idealising
UK
bringing to perfection
putting finishing touch on
reaching the summit of
idealizing
US
latching onto
getting someplace
formulating
making hay
fulfilling one's potential
keeping faith with
doing a bang-up job
putting it over
putting the tin lid on
providing
sanctioning
ratifying
supplying
giving
proclaiming
drawing up
approving
engaging in
laying down
waging
furnishing
dictating
confirming
dispensing
delivering
coming up with
coming across
dropping
imparting
handing over
having
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to carry out a plan with a specific purpose in mind
designing
intending
aiming
devising
purposing
planning
tailoring
fashioning
making fitting
adjusting
adapting
proposing
purporting
conceiving
constructing
fitting
preparing
shaping
gearing
equipping
meaning
destining
orienting
organizing
US
organising
UK
readying
aspiring
striving
endeavoring
US
conspiring
scheming
endeavouring
UK
arranging
focusing
focussing
plotting
calculating
seeking
angling
trying
premeditating
orchestrating
attempting
wanting
meditating
engineering
hoping
targeting
essaying
wishing
targetting
zeroing in on
looking
setting your sights on
zooming in on
reckoning on
awaiting
expecting
taking care
anticipating
attending
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to obtain, arrange, or achieve by deceitful methods or by trickery
manipulating
tricking
cheating
conning
deceiving
duping
finagling
fooling
hoodwinking
misleading
swindling
bamboozling
beguiling
defrauding
deluding
hoaxing
jockeying
swaying
bilking
entrapping
impressing
outmaneuvering
US
outmanoeuvring
UK
scamming
wangling
biasing
US
biassing
UK
bluffing
snookering
stiffing
suckering
trapping
gaslighting
double-crossing
ripping off
stringing along
doing a number on
playing games
pulling strings
pulling wires
setting up
stage-managing
sucking in
taking for a ride
leading up the garden path
pulling a fast one on
twisting around your little finger
Verb
▲
Present participle for to indulge in fantasies about something desired
dreaming
fantasising
UK
fantasizing
US
daydreaming
contemplating
imagining
envisioning
visualising
UK
visualizing
US
musing
romanticising
UK
romanticizing
US
fancying
craving
hankering
idealising
UK
idealizing
US
longing
lusting
pining
woolgathering
picturing
aiming for
aspiring to
building castles in air
conceiving of
conjuring up pictures
desiring to
hankering after
hoping for
hungering for
living in a dream world
longing for
seeking to
thirsting after
thirsting for
wishing for
wishing to
yearning for
having as one's aim
having as one's goal
ideating
setting one's heart on
setting your sights on
sighing
envisaging
conceiving
thinking
figuring
projecting
perceiving
seeing
visioning
imaging
conceiting
hallucinating
fantasying
featuring
romancing
mooning
pretending
conjuring up
indulging in fantasy
building castles in Spain
building castles in the air
indulging in fancy
indulging in wool-gathering
tripping out
seeing visions
play-acting
giving free rein to the imagination
stargazing
gushing
rhapsodizing
US
swooning
rhapsodising
UK
staring into space
having your head in the clouds
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for attempt to get
angling for
aiming for
casting about for
conniving
conspiring
fishing for
hinting
hunting
inviting
looking for
maneuvering
US
manoeuvring
UK
planning
plotting
scheming
seeking
soliciting
striving
trying for
trying to get
Verb
▲
Present participle for to make a false show or pretense of
affecting
counterfeiting
faking
feigning
pretending
shamming
simulating
acting
assuming
bluffing
dissembling
fabricating
professing
putting on
imitating
passing for
playacting
making like
playing at
aspiring to
giving the appearance of
making a show of
doing a bit
making a pretence of
making out like
going through the motions of
laying it on thick
putting up a front
Verb
▲
Present participle for to ascertain through analysis or investigation
determining
ascertaining
discerning
discovering
establishing
deducing
detecting
figuring out
finding out
identifying
learning
verifying
working out
fathoming
figuring
finding
perceiving
uncovering
adding up
conceiving
confirming
intuiting
noticing
observing
picking up
realising
UK
realizing
US
recognising
UK
recognizing
US
seeing
sensing
spotting
unearthing
catching on
coming upon
descrying
diagnosing
divining
getting
getting to know
having a hunch
reading
sizing up
coming to know
fathoming out
making out
Verb
▲
Present participle for to direct or influence the behavior or development of
guiding
directing
leading
conducting
steering
controlling
managing
supervising
governing
piloting
regulating
ruling
superintending
commanding
handling
overseeing
running
administering
administrating
influencing
keeping
marshalling
UK
marshaling
US
operating
overlooking
presiding over
stewarding
manipulating
swaying
beaconing
carrying on
channeling
US
channelling
UK
coxswaining
driving
engineering
funnelling
UK
funneling
US
maneuvering
US
manoeuvring
UK
navigating
pointing
quarterbacking
spearheading
trailblazing
having control of
taking charge of
taking control of
having a handle on
Verb
▲
Present participle for to build or alter according to personal preferences or specifications
customising
UK
customizing
US
personalising
UK
personalizing
US
modifying
tailoring
adapting
altering
converting
fashioning
designing
tailor-making
custom-making
making to order
making specially
Adjective
▲
Working in conjunction with another to deceitfully achieve one's goals
conniving
cunning
devious
crafty
scheming
sly
wily
tricky
artful
guileful
deceitful
unscrupulous
calculating
underhand
designing
treacherous
duplicitous
foxy
unprincipled
Machiavellian
slick
slippery
subtle
disingenuous
manipulative
plotting
slim
colluding
collusive
conspiratorial
conspiring
caballing
Janus-faced
shrewd
dishonest
sharp
cagey
two-faced
politic
shady
cautious
sneaky
discreet
careful
untrustworthy
shifty
furtive
insidious
deceptive
considerate
underhanded
astute
stealthy
intriguing
sneaking
shonky
snide
opportunistic
false
iffy
fly-by-night
double-dealing
dodgy
canny
cynical
circumspect
wary
safe
premeditating
intelligent
perfidious
opportunist
amoral
unconscionable
immoral
unethical
cutthroat
expedient
gingerly
chary
guarded
tactful
sensitive
delicate
polite
prudent
clever
judicious
roguish
skillful
US
discerning
skilful
UK
understanding
thoughtful
adept
bent
fast
snidey
fraudulent
rogue
suspicious
crooked
strategic
conciliatory
diplomatic
deft
savvy
dexterous
US
gracious
dextrous
UK
arch
suave
treating with kid gloves
courteous
capable
bland
smooth
brainy
lying
slimy
unhonest
mendacious
dubious
smart
ingenious
wise
sagacious
perceptive
streetwise
beguiling
sharp-witted
cute
quick-witted
acute
knowing
heedful
sensible
alert
cheating
discriminating
keen
cagy
pawky
sage
perspicacious
dishonourable
UK
conservative
sapient
observant
watchful
unfair
dishonorable
US
fly
resourceful
quick
on the ball
heads-up
dirty
clear-sighted
insightful
attentive
heady
secretive
argute
street smart
reasonable
disreputable
bright
clear-eyed
rational
clandestine
long-headed
brilliant
hardheaded
vigilant
street-smart
leery
surreptitious
whip-smart
secret
covert
inventive
logical
experienced
indirect
suss
dissembling
vulpine
mean
evasive
deep
media-savvy
carny
hard-boiled
enlightened
farsighted
hesitant
insincere
worldly-wise
penetrating
tactical
sound
intuitive
practical
unsporting
illegal
unsportsmanlike
nefarious
informed
seasoned
worldly
oblique
unlawful
cluey
reluctant
reserved
sane
below the belt
scrupulous
provident
elusive
well-advised
under the table
profound
restrained
softly-softly
quick on the uptake
on the lookout
razor-sharp
hypocritical
intellectual
thinking
hardened
untruthful
backstairs
timid
hidden
two-timing
low-down
pragmatic
incisive
low
fishy
adroit
considered
cerebral
deceiving
back-alley
hugger-mugger
cloak-and-dagger
hole-and-corner
truthless
astucious
traitorous
knavish
moderate
civil
bluffing
reticent
able
precautious
controlled
judgmatical
judgmatic
knowledgeable
double-faced
captious
delusive
illusory
percipient
hollow-hearted
false-hearted
noncommittal
sober
crazy like a fox
mindful
accurate
aware
genius
sophisticated
fastidious
apprehensive
responsible
well-judged
urbane
respectful
kid-glove
far-seeing
sympathetic
imaginative
in the know
creative
as sharp as a tack
frugal
dirty-dealing
quick off the mark
well-informed
thrifty
seemly
walking on eggs
with eyes peeled
thinking twice
keeping on one's toes
handling with kid gloves
sparing
with reservations
on the qui vive
watching one's step
on guard
watching out
full of plans
Byzantine
enterprising
stinky
serpentine
controlling
complicitous
handy
mean-spirited
piercing
bootleg
deliberate
masterly
nifty
proficient
malicious
tricksy
shrouded
veiled
under the counter
murky
crazy like fox
punctilious
gentle
feigned
pragmatical
neat
misleading
fiendish
unveracious
squeamish
dainty
unadventurous
non-committal
errant
obliquitous
erring
gimmicky
uncandid
unfrank
probing
planful
shark
calculated
inside
vague
unrevealing
sly like a fox
commonsensical
impish
mischievous
foresighted
advisable
playing politics
put on
playing games
playing your cards close to your chest
not candid
not frank
unenterprising
not born yesterday
not entirely truthful
terminologically inexact
analytical
wide-awake
economical with the truth
overcautious
overcareful
faking one out
not straightforward
desirable
wised up
on the inside
on top of
up on
wide awake
on the alert
doubting
unwasteful
saving
efficacious
private
sharp as a tack
undercover
cordial
polished
well judged
just
seasonable
thorough
judicial
common-sense
well thought out
well advised
complicit
craft
underground
poised
mannerly
stealth
faithless
privy
sneak
qualified
expert
unprovincial
black
competent
nasty
slinking
skulking
sentient
conversant
cognizant
reasoning
apt
despicable
criminal
cloaked
base
mature
counterfeit
masked
contemptible
gifted
studious
thoughty
vile
level-headed
levelheaded
talented
exceptional
defrauding
sordid
corrupt
having been around
clued-up
well informed
with-it
tuned-in
scholarly
supersmart
precocious
fallacious
Punic
disguised
cheap
ignominious
creepy
uneasy
realistic
all there
instructed
having a good head on one's shoulders
alive
highbrow
together
comprehending
know how many beans make five
ultrasmart
having no flies on
very smart
witty
nimble
ready
original
hyperintelligent
whiz
unjust
cloak and dagger
under wraps
under-the-table
behind someone's back
behind-the-scenes
sub-rosa
hole and corner
hush-hush
beggarly
shameful
cowardly
squalid
rotten
ungentlemanly
awake
temperate
foul
unpleasant
scurvy
shabby
detestable
paltry
worthless
loath
sceptical
UK
shy
doubtful
distrustful
mistrustful
on lookout
having foresight
not rash
double-crossing
execrable
illegitimate
wretched
sleazy
grubby
abject
inequitable
unsportsmanly
ignoble
detail oriented
averse
afraid
nervous
disinclined
sorry
deplorable
scummy
lame
currish
scungy
lousy
sussed
hep
measured
off-colour
UK
illicit
ratty
scabby
parsimonious
stingy
tentative
low-minded
suspecting
forethoughtful
nimble-witted
off-color
US
ill-gotten
inhibited
constrained
skeptical
US
miserly
economical
particular
keeping a weather eye on
on your toes
all ears
walking on egg shells
not cricket
hedging your bets
taking it slow
playing safe
belt-and-braces
against the rules
on the watch
out of order
with it
greasy
more ❯
Adjective
▲
Causing to function
operating
directing
accomplishing
administering
conducting
determining
driving
executing
finishing
fulfilling
guiding
maintaining
managing
manipulating
moving
ordering
performing
practising
UK
practicing
US
regulating
revolving
serving
spinning
supervising
sustaining
transacting
turning
using
wielding
at work
inspecting
piloting
leading
steering
husbanding
admonishing
governing
handling
organizing
US
superintending
controlling
advising
overseeing
organising
UK
more ❯
Noun
▲
The action or process of inventing something, typically a process or device
invention
creation
origination
inception
development
formation
construction
establishment
design
production
conception
institution
formulation
introduction
foundation
devising
constitution
contrivance
innovation
finding
pioneering
discovery
masterminding
concoction
setting up
manufacture
building
assembly
fabrication
making
forming
fashioning
composition
forging
erection
modelling
UK
raising
shaping
modeling
US
putting together
elevation
putting up
manufacturing
producing
creating
moulding
UK
mass production
assemblage
authoring
molding
US
fancying
imagination
planning
causation
occasioning
performing
constituting
designing
product
structure
fabricating
erecting
arrangement
casting
format
figuration
architecture
initiation
inauguration
organization
US
organisation
UK
generation
engineering
founding
produce
preparation
start
installation
fitting together
assembling
genesis
joining
connection
laying down
coinage
starting
mass-production
induction
piecing together
getting going
composing
preparing
structuring
administration
organizing
US
coordination
direction
engendering
connecting
brainchild
coupling
compilation
provision
constructing
junction
planting
attachment
joint
launch
hatching
jointure
join
juncture
organising
UK
nascency
set-up
drawing up
linking
thinking up
labor
US
handiwork
realization
US
output
labour
UK
realisation
UK
build
setting-up
architectonics
completion
doing
tooling
finishing
accomplishment
construct
industry
groundwork
incorporation
preparations
spawning
causing
nativity
framing
writing
interpretation
rendering
prefabrication
triggering
kindling
prompting
inspiration
emergence
appearance
conglomeration
processing
making up
instigation
scheduling
yielding
original idea
complex
drafting
reproduction
bearing
building design
incipience
nascence
incipiency
building up
welding
collection
adjustment
wrinkle
widening
thickening
unravelling
UK
turning out
working out
launching
site
institute
originating
editing
arranging
concocting
unraveling
US
outcomes
by-products
things
results
offshoots
opus
establishing
enactment
instituting
initiating
breakthrough
management
running
find
endowment
flotation
settlement
novelty
gestation
evolution
incubation
advance
bringing about
baby
leap
headway
housing
houses
habitation
thinking-up
putting in order
making ready
getting ready
operation
handling
control
regulation
advancement
device
discovering
conclusion
release
supervision
governance
logistics
step forward
lucky strike
leap forward
quantum leap
superintendence
methodology
fastening
curation
union
combination
link
merging
combining
merger
unification
consolidation
tie
port
portal
mapping
conjunction
fixture
conjointment
seam
network
partnerhip
upshot
commodity
result
thing
offshoot
issue
yield
outcome
fruit
by-product
more ❯
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