Synonyms for devise
dɪˈvaɪzde·vise

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. devise

   Synonyms:
   contrive, plan, maneuvre, concert, manage

   Antonyms:
   miscontrive, mismanage

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1. devisenoun

   a will disposing of real property

2. deviseverb

   (law) a gift of real property by will

3. invent, contrive, devise, excogitate, formulate, forgeverb

   come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort

   "excogitate a way to measure the speed of light"

   Synonyms:
   excogitate, ruminate, work, fake, prepare, make up, develop, contemplate, muse, get up, organize, fabricate, forge, plan, speculate, throw, cast, mull over, think over, form, mould, invent, word, manufacture, mull, explicate, reflect, fashion, articulate, spirt, cook up, organise, meditate, hammer, counterfeit, chew over, contrive, shape, phrase, ponder, spurt, give voice, formulate, project, design, machinate, mold

4. organize, organise, prepare, devise, get up, machinateverb

   arrange by systematic planning and united effort

   "machinate a plot"; "organize a strike"; "devise a plan to take over the director's office"

   Synonyms:
   conspire, excogitate, trick up, prink, drum, rise, ready, coordinate, prepare, stand up, bone up, fig up, mug up, cook, fancy up, fix, develop, elevate, uprise, get up, work up, gear up, organize, forge, unionize, tog up, grind away, lift, make, cram, arise, swot up, cabal, form, gussy up, bring up, attire, train, mastermind, invent, groom, overdress, deck up, complot, direct, raise, engineer, trick out, organise, bone, unionise, set up, turn out, swot, contrive, fig out, dress up, tog out, rig out, orchestrate, formulate, set, conjure, deck out, machinate, educate

5. deviseverb

   give by will, especially real property

   Synonyms:
   machinate, formulate, get up, invent, organise, excogitate, forge, prepare, contrive, organize

Matched Categories

1. • Bequeath
   • Will

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1. deviseverb

   Synonyms:
   contrive, invent, imagine, plan, scheme, project, brew, concert, concoct, COMPASS

2. deviseverb

   Synonyms:
   bequeath, demise, leave, give by will

3. devisenoun

   Synonyms:
   bequest, legacy

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1. deviseverb

   Synonyms:
   contrive, invent, scheme, concoct, excogitate, bequeath

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1. List of paraphrases for "devise":

   develop, design, conceive, invent, formulate, designing, find, prepare, elaborate

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1. Krzysztof Kieślowski:

   Why did they devise censorship? To show a world which doesn’t exist, an ideal world, or what they envisaged as the ideal world. And we wanted to depict the world as it was.

2. Dudley Brown:

   Mr. President, if you want to devise a way to lose the 2020 elections, go against your base and support these two gun controls or any others.

3. Sam Greene:

   By delegating the crisis response to lower levels, and not being clear in his own messaging, Putin did leave people to devise their own solutions in ways they felt responded to what Russian President Vladimir Putin probably wanted. That kind of experimentation can be good, but is also meant there were a lot of mistakes made, in some areas, there is endemic corruption and dysfunction. You could have known they were going to drop the ball. Investment wasn't going to get where it needed to get.

4. Chris Morris:

   Nature has a surer plan than mortals can devise.

5. Bud Zaouk:

   Unlike the alcohol ignition interlocks which require you to blow into a devise and are used for convicted drunk drivers, DADSS is a driver assist system that would be seamless, take less than half a second, and use infrared light to measure a driver’s blood alcohol content in the breath or through the fingertips, which is far more reliable.