schemes

The word “schemes” has 1 syllable: schemes

It's pronounced as /skiːmz/


What is synonym and antonym for schemes?

In the thesaurus, “schemes” has 125 synonyms.

Here are synonyms for schemes along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for schemes

  • aims
  • arrangements
  • artifices
  • blinds
  • blueprints
  • bluffs
  • brews
  • cabals
  • chicaneries
  • colludes
  • collusions
  • compasses
  • complicities
  • conceptions
  • concocts
  • confederacies
  • connivances
  • connives
  • conspiracies
  • conspirations
  • conspires
  • contrivances
  • contrives
  • counter-conspiracies
  • counter-strategies
  • counterconspiracies
  • counterplans
  • counterplots
  • counterstrategies
  • cover-ups
  • cozenages
  • crafts
  • crookeries
  • cunnings
  • deceptions
  • designs
  • devices
  • devises
  • diagrams
  • dodges
  • drafts
  • duperies
  • duplicities
  • end runs
  • engineers
  • fakeries
  • feints
  • fetches
  • flimflams
  • formulae
  • formulas
  • frame-ups
  • frames
  • frauds
  • fronts
  • gaffs
  • gambits
  • game plans
  • games
  • gimmicks
  • ground plans
  • hatches
  • hoaxes
  • ideas
  • intentions
  • intents
  • intrigues
  • jigs
  • jockeys
  • juggleries
  • juggles
  • knacks
  • layouts
  • lays out
  • legerdemains
  • machinates
  • machinations
  • maneuvers
  • manipulates
  • manipulations
  • maps
  • master plans
  • means
  • patterns
  • plans
  • platforms
  • plays
  • plots
  • ploys
  • policies
  • procedures
  • programs
  • projects
  • projets
  • proposals
  • protocols
  • purposes
  • puts up
  • rackets
  • recipes
  • rings
  • road maps
  • ruses
  • setups
  • shams
  • shapes
  • shenanigans
  • skulduggeries
  • skullduggeries
  • sleights
  • sleights of hand
  • smoke screens
  • specifications
  • specifics
  • stratagems
  • strategies
  • subterfuges
  • swindles
  • systems
  • tactics
  • techniques
  • trickeries
  • tricks
  • ways
  • wiles

Meanings of schemes

  • noun
    1. A systematic plan of future action.
    2. A plot or secret, devious plan.
    3. An orderly combination of related parts.
    4. A chart or diagram of a system or object.
    5. A type of geometric object.
    6. A council housing estate.
    7. An artful deviation from the ordinary arrangement of words.
    8. A representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies for any moment or at a given event.
    9. Part of a uniform resource identifier indicating the protocol or other purpose, such as http: or news:.
    10. A portfolio of pension plans with related benefits comprising multiple independent members.
  • verb
    1. To plot, or contrive a plan.
    2. To plan; to contrive.

Example Sentences

  • The government launched several new schemes to support small businesses.
  • His elaborate schemes always ended in failure.
  • They uncovered financial schemes that defrauded investors.
  • She was tired of his get-rich-quick schemes.
  • Urban planners proposed zoning schemes to manage city growth.

On this page you'll find 125 synonyms or another words to schemes, such as: aims, arrangements, artifices, blinds, blueprints, bluffs, brews.

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

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  • manners
  • methods
  • patterns
  • plans
  • policies
  • practices
  • practises
  • procedures
  • programs
  • regimens
  • rotes
  • routines
  • ruts
  • schemes
  • strategies
  • styles
  • tacks
  • techniques
  • traditions
  • treadmills
  • tricks
  • ways
  • wonts

ideals

ideas

  • Weltanschauung
  • abstractions
  • account
  • acmes
  • advice
  • aims
  • ambitions
  • announcement
  • apexes
  • apices
  • apotheoses
  • apprehensions
  • archetypes
  • articles of faith
  • aspirations
  • assumptions
  • beau ideals
  • beliefs
  • bournes
  • bourns
  • brain waves
  • brainchildren
  • brainstorms
  • briefing
  • bulletin
  • caprices
  • chimeras
  • classics
  • cogitations
  • cognitions
  • conceits
  • conceptions
  • concepts
  • conclusions
  • conjectures
  • conversation
  • converse
  • convictions
  • credo
  • creed
  • culminations
  • culture
  • declaration
  • delusions
  • designs
  • desires
  • destinations
  • directive
  • disclosure
  • dispatch
  • dogma
  • dreams
  • eidola
  • eidolons
  • embodiments
  • ends
  • epitomes
  • essences
  • examples
  • excerpt
  • exemplars
  • fancies
  • fantasms
  • freaks
  • gages
  • gauges
  • goals
  • goods
  • grails
  • guesses
  • guidelines
  • hallucinations
  • holy grails
  • hopes
  • hot story
  • hunches
  • hypotheses
  • ideals
  • illusions
  • images
  • impressions
  • incarnations
  • info
  • information
  • inside story
  • inspirations
  • intellections
  • intelligence
  • intentions
  • intents
  • kinks
  • language
  • lowdown
  • manifestations
  • marks
  • meanings
  • message
  • minds
  • mirrors
  • missive
  • models
  • news
  • nirvanas
  • nonesuches
  • nonpareils
  • note
  • notions
  • objectives
  • objects
  • observations
  • outlook
  • paradigms
  • paragons
  • patron saints
  • patterns
  • peaks
  • perceptions
  • personifications
  • phantasms
  • phantoms
  • philosophy
  • pictures
  • pinks
  • pinnacles
  • pipeline
  • plans
  • plots
  • points
  • preconceptions
  • prejudices
  • premonitions
  • prepossessions
  • presentiments
  • pretensions
  • principles
  • projects
  • prophecy
  • publicity
  • purposes
  • quintessences
  • reflections
  • report
  • revelation
  • role models
  • rules
  • schemes
  • scoop
  • skinny
  • speculations
  • speech
  • standards
  • statement
  • summary
  • summits
  • suppositions
  • surmises
  • system
  • targets
  • tenets
  • termini
  • terminuses
  • the poop
  • theories
  • theory
  • things
  • thoughts
  • tidings
  • touchstones
  • translation
  • utterance
  • vagaries
  • view
  • warning
  • whims
  • wishes
  • word
  • work
  • zeniths

machinates

machinations

  • amour
  • artifices
  • cabals
  • chicane
  • chicanery
  • collusions
  • complicities
  • confederacies
  • connivances
  • conspiracies
  • conspirations
  • contrivances
  • counter-conspiracies
  • counterconspiracies
  • counterplots
  • cover-ups
  • dalliance
  • deception
  • designs
  • devilry
  • dirty pool
  • dodges
  • double-dealing
  • drafts
  • fling
  • flirtation
  • fooling around
  • fourberie
  • frame-ups
  • fraud
  • funny business
  • games
  • gimmicks
  • ground plans
  • hankie-pankie
  • hokey-pokey
  • intrigues
  • knavery
  • liaison
  • love affair
  • maneuvers
  • manipulations
  • mischief
  • monkey business
  • plots
  • programs
  • rackets
  • rings
  • romance
  • schemes
  • sexual activity
  • sharp practice
  • shenanigans
  • skullduggery
  • stratagems
  • strategies
  • subterfuge
  • subterfuges
  • systems
  • trickeries
  • trickery
  • tricks

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