Synonyms and Antonyms of device
1
a clever often underhanded means to achieve an end
- used every device and stratagem he knew to prevent his son's marriage
artifice, dodge, fetch, flimflam, gambit, gimmick, jig, juggle, knack, play, ploy, ruse, scheme, shenanigan, sleight, stratagem, trick, wile
bluff, end run, feint
cheating, chicanery, cozenage, craft, crookery, cunning, deception, dupery, duplicity, fakery, jugglery, legerdemain, skulduggery (or skullduggery), subterfuge, swindling, trickery
fraud, gaff, hoax, sham, swindle
blind, front, smoke screen
2
an article intended for use in work
- the salesclerk tried to sell me a new device for grooming cats
apparatus, appliance, mechanism
contraption, contrivance, gadget, gizmo (also gismo), jigger
accessory (also accessary), accoutrement (or accouterment), adjunct, appendage, attachment
3
devices plural
a habitual attraction to some activity or thing
- left to her own devices she'd eat at a fast-food restaurant every night of the week
affection, affinity, aptitude, bent, bias, bone, disposition, genius, habitude, impulse, inclination, leaning, partiality, penchant, predilection, predisposition, proclivity, propensity, tendency, turn
favor, one-sidedness, partisanship, prejudice
endowment, faculty, flair, genius, gift, knack, talent
addiction, appetite, fancy, fondness, like, liking, preference, taste
forte, speciality, specialty
convention, custom, habit, pattern, practice (also practise), routine, trick, way, wont
eccentricity, idiosyncrasy, kink, oddity, peculiarity, quirk, singularity
allergy, averseness, aversion, disfavor, disinclination, dislike, disliking, disrelish, distaste
detachment, impartiality, neutrality, objectivity
apathy, disinterestedness, indifference, insouciance, nonchalance, unconcern
