knack | Definition of knack

Synonyms and Antonyms of knack

1 a clever often underhanded means to achieve an end

tried every knack I knew to get him to spill the beans

Synonyms of knack

artifice, device, dodge, fetch, flimflam, gambit, gimmick, jig, juggle, play, ploy, ruse, scheme, shenanigan, sleight, stratagem, trick, wile

Words Related to knack

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

Phrases Synonymous with knack

sleight of hand

2 a special and usually inborn ability

a jazz musician with an incredible knack for improvisation

Synonyms of knack

aptitude, bent, endowment, faculty, flair, genius, gift, head, talent

Words Related to knack

affinity, bias, disposition, habitude, impulse, inclination, leaning, partiality, penchant, predilection, predisposition, proclivity, propensity, tendency, turn

ear, eye, mind, nose

feel, hang, instinct, touch, way

capability, competence, facility, proficiency, skill

capacity, potential, power

forte, specialism, speciality, specialty

Near Antonyms of knack

disability, handicap, inability, incapacity

shortcoming, weakness