machination

The word “machination” has 4 syllables: ma-chi-na-tion

It's pronounced as /ˌmækɪˈneɪʃən/


What is synonym and antonym for machination?

In the thesaurus, “machination” has 44 synonyms and 3 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for machination along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for machination

  • artifice
  • cabal
  • collusion
  • complicity
  • confederacy
  • connivance
  • conniving
  • conspiracy
  • conspiration
  • contrivance
  • counterconspiracy
  • counterplot
  • cover-up
  • design
  • device
  • dirty work
  • dodge
  • draft
  • frame-up
  • game
  • gimmick
  • ground plan
  • intrigue
  • maneuver
  • manipulation
  • monkey business
  • on the make
  • plot
  • ploy
  • practice
  • program
  • racket
  • ring
  • ruse
  • scheme
  • sellout
  • skullduggery
  • song and dance
  • stratagem
  • strategy
  • subterfuge
  • system
  • trick
  • trickery

Antonyms for machination

Meanings of machination

  • noun
    1. A clever scheme or artful plot, usually crafted for evil purposes.
    2. The act of machinating or plotting.

Example Sentences

  • The novel's plot unfolded with a complex machination that kept readers guessing until the end.
  • Behind the scenes, a web of political machination aimed to manipulate public opinion.
  • The spy thriller featured a gripping narrative of espionage and international machination.
  • In the business world, corporate rivalries often involve intricate machinations to gain a competitive edge.
  • The historical drama revealed the royal court's dark machinations as various factions vied for power.

On this page you'll find 47 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to machination, such as: artifice, cabal, collusion, complicity, confederacy, connivance, conniving.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

quicksand

  • allurement
  • ambuscade
  • ambush
  • artifice
  • bait
  • bog
  • booby trap
  • catch
  • cobweb
  • come-on
  • conspiracy
  • danger
  • deadfall
  • deception
  • decoy
  • device
  • difficulty
  • dirt
  • downfall
  • dragnet
  • drawback
  • entanglement
  • enticement
  • entrapment
  • feint
  • fen
  • gambit
  • glop
  • goo
  • gunk
  • hook
  • intrigue
  • inveiglement
  • knot
  • labyrinth
  • lasso
  • lure
  • machination
  • maneuver
  • marsh
  • marshland
  • maze
  • mesh
  • mire
  • morass
  • moss
  • mousetrap
  • mud
  • net
  • noose
  • ooze
  • peril
  • pit
  • pitfall
  • plot
  • ploy
  • prank
  • quag
  • quagmire
  • risk
  • ruse
  • seducement
  • setup
  • slime
  • slough
  • snag
  • snare
  • snarl
  • spiderweb
  • stratagem
  • subterfuge
  • swamp
  • swindle
  • tangle
  • tanglement
  • temptation
  • toil
  • trap
  • trick
  • web
  • wile
  • wire

handling

  • abiding
  • absorbing
  • accepting
  • acquiescing
  • addressing
  • administering
  • administrating
  • administration
  • aegis
  • agency
  • allowing
  • approach
  • bearing
  • biding
  • bossing
  • bringing off
  • brooking
  • capitulating
  • captaining
  • care
  • carrying off
  • carrying on
  • carrying out
  • charge
  • co-directing
  • co-managing
  • coadministration
  • codirecting
  • codirection
  • comanagement
  • comanaging
  • coming to grips with
  • commanding
  • conduct
  • conducting
  • considering
  • control
  • controlling
  • countenancing
  • custody
  • directing
  • direction
  • doing by
  • driving
  • egis
  • enduring
  • engineering
  • esteeming
  • fielding
  • finessing
  • generalship
  • getting off
  • going
  • governance
  • governing
  • government
  • guardianship
  • guarding
  • guidance
  • guiding
  • hacking
  • having a grip on
  • heading
  • intendance
  • jockeying
  • keeping
  • lap
  • leadership
  • leading
  • living with
  • logistics
  • machination
  • management
  • managing
  • maneuvering
  • manipulating
  • manipulation
  • meeting
  • micromanaging
  • minding
  • monitoring
  • negotiating
  • operating
  • operation
  • ordering
  • overlooking
  • overseeing
  • oversight
  • permitting
  • piloting
  • playing
  • plying
  • pocketing
  • presidency
  • protecting
  • protection
  • pulling
  • quarterbacking
  • rating
  • reckoning
  • regarding
  • regulating
  • regulation
  • reigning
  • respecting
  • riding herd on
  • rulership
  • ruling
  • running
  • safeguarding
  • safekeeping
  • serving
  • shepherding
  • showing
  • stage-managing
  • standing
  • standing for
  • steering
  • stewarding
  • stewardship
  • sticking out
  • stomaching
  • styling
  • suffering
  • superintendence
  • superintendency
  • superintending
  • supervising
  • supervision
  • supporting
  • sustaining
  • swallowing
  • sweating out
  • swinging
  • taking
  • tending
  • tolerating
  • toughing it out
  • treating
  • treatment
  • trust
  • tutelage
  • using
  • viewing
  • ward
  • watching
  • watching over
  • wearing
  • wielding
  • working

design

  • accomplish
  • achieve
  • action
  • adornment
  • aim
  • allow
  • ambition
  • angle
  • animus
  • architecture
  • arrange
  • arrangement
  • artifice
  • aspiration
  • aspire
  • attempt
  • big picture
  • block out
  • blueprint
  • bourn
  • bourne
  • brainchild
  • budget
  • cabal
  • calculate
  • caparison
  • cast
  • chart
  • child
  • choreograph
  • collusion
  • comp
  • complicity
  • compose
  • composition
  • conation
  • conception
  • concert
  • confederacy
  • configuration
  • connivance
  • conniving
  • consider
  • conspiracy
  • conspiration
  • conspire
  • constellation
  • constitution
  • construct
  • construction
  • contemplate
  • contrivance
  • contrive
  • cook up
  • counterconspiracy
  • counterplan
  • counterplot
  • counterstrategy
  • cover-up
  • create
  • debate
  • decoration
  • deliberation
  • delineate
  • delineation
  • depiction
  • describe
  • desire
  • destination
  • destine
  • device
  • devise
  • diagram
  • dodge
  • doodle
  • dope out
  • draft
  • draw
  • drawing
  • dream
  • dream up
  • dummy
  • effect
  • embellishment
  • end
  • endeavor
  • enterprise
  • execute
  • fabricate
  • fashion
  • figure
  • figure on
  • form
  • format
  • formation
  • formula
  • frame
  • frame-up
  • frill
  • fulfill
  • gambit
  • game
  • game plan
  • garnish
  • get up
  • getup
  • gimmick
  • go
  • goal
  • grail
  • ground plan
  • have on
  • holy grail
  • hope
  • idea
  • ideal
  • illustration
  • intend
  • intendment
  • intent
  • intention
  • intrigue
  • invent
  • lay of the land
  • lay out
  • layout
  • look
  • machinate
  • machination
  • make
  • make up
  • makeup
  • maneuver
  • manipulation
  • map
  • mark
  • master plan
  • mean
  • meaning
  • means
  • meditate
  • method
  • mind
  • model
  • motif
  • motive
  • name of the game
  • nirvana
  • notion
  • object
  • objective
  • ordonnance
  • organization
  • organize
  • originate
  • ornament
  • outline
  • painting
  • paste-up
  • pattern
  • perform
  • perspective
  • picture
  • pitch
  • plan
  • platform
  • play
  • plot
  • point
  • policy
  • ponder
  • portrait
  • premeditate
  • prepare
  • pretension
  • procedure
  • produce
  • program
  • project
  • projet
  • proposal
  • propose
  • proposition
  • protocol
  • purport
  • purpose
  • put up
  • racket
  • recipe
  • reflection
  • ring
  • road map
  • ruse
  • scenario
  • scene
  • schema
  • scheme
  • set out
  • setup
  • shape
  • sketch
  • sketch out
  • story
  • stratagem
  • strategy
  • strive
  • struggle
  • study
  • style
  • subterfuge
  • system
  • tactic
  • tailor
  • target
  • technique
  • terminus
  • theme
  • thing
  • think up
  • thinking
  • thought
  • trace
  • tracery
  • tracing
  • treatment
  • trick
  • trickery
  • trim
  • try
  • undertaking
  • view
  • volition
  • way
  • will
  • wish
  • work out

management

  • administration
  • aegis
  • agency
  • authority
  • board
  • bosses
  • brass
  • care
  • charge
  • coadministration
  • codirection
  • comanagement
  • command
  • conduct
  • control
  • custody
  • direction
  • directorate
  • directors
  • egis
  • employers
  • engineering
  • execs
  • executive
  • executive suite
  • executives
  • front office
  • generalship
  • governance
  • government
  • guardianship
  • guidance
  • handling
  • head
  • intendance
  • keeping
  • lap
  • leadership
  • logistics
  • machination
  • mainframe
  • manipulation
  • micro management
  • operation
  • oversight
  • person upstairs
  • presidency
  • protection
  • regulation
  • rule
  • rulership
  • running
  • safekeeping
  • stewardship
  • superintendence
  • superintendency
  • supervision
  • top brass
  • trust
  • tutelage
  • upstairs
  • ward

maneuver

  • action
  • address
  • angle
  • arrange
  • artifice
  • assault
  • attack
  • bandwagon
  • battle
  • beguile
  • bid
  • blind
  • blitz
  • bluff
  • brew
  • bring off
  • campaign
  • captain
  • carry off
  • carry out
  • cause
  • cheat
  • cheating
  • chicanery
  • come to grips with
  • come up with
  • command
  • compass
  • con
  • concert
  • conclude
  • concoct
  • conduct
  • connive
  • conspire
  • contrivance
  • contrive
  • control
  • cook
  • cozenage
  • craft
  • crookery
  • crusade
  • cunning
  • curveball
  • deception
  • demarche
  • deploy
  • deployment
  • design
  • device
  • devise
  • direct
  • dispense
  • doctor
  • dodge
  • drill
  • drive
  • dupery
  • duplicity
  • end run
  • engineer
  • enterprise
  • evolution
  • exercise
  • exploit
  • fakery
  • fancy footwork
  • feint
  • fence
  • fetch
  • field
  • finagle
  • finesse
  • flimflam
  • frame
  • front
  • gambit
  • game
  • gerrymander
  • get off
  • gimmick
  • go around
  • guide
  • hack
  • hammer out
  • handle
  • hatch
  • have a grip on
  • initiative
  • intrigue
  • jig
  • jockey
  • juggernaut
  • juggle
  • jugglery
  • knack
  • leave holding the bag
  • legerdemain
  • machinate
  • machination
  • manage
  • manipulate
  • manipulation
  • march
  • mastermind
  • measure
  • micromanage
  • mission
  • move
  • movement
  • navigate
  • negotiate
  • offensive
  • operate
  • parade
  • pilot
  • plan
  • play
  • play games
  • plot
  • ploy
  • ply
  • procedure
  • proceed
  • proceeding
  • project
  • pull
  • pull strings
  • push
  • push around
  • put one over
  • quarterback
  • regulate
  • rig
  • run
  • ruse
  • scam
  • scheme
  • sham
  • shenanigan
  • shenanigans
  • shift
  • shuffle
  • skulduggery
  • skullduggery
  • sleight
  • smoke screen
  • steer
  • step
  • stratagem
  • stunt
  • subterfuge
  • swindling
  • swing
  • tactics
  • take
  • treat
  • trick
  • trickery
  • undertaking
  • upstage
  • wangle
  • war games
  • wield
  • wile
  • work
  • work out

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