Synonyms for
Contraption
Definition
A mechanical device or gadget that is strange-looking, overly-complicated, and often doesn't work very well.
Synonyms & similar words
Example sentences
- The scientist's contraption was supposed to help cure diseases, but it only made things worse.
- The little boy made a contraption out of cardboard boxes and duct tape.
- My grandfather's old contraption didn't work anymore, but he refused to get rid of it.
- The circus clown rode around the ring on a silly contraption that looked like a unicycle with an umbrella on top.
- The inventor spent years perfecting his contraption, but no one was interested in buying it.
Quotes
"She had a peculiar feeling about this contraption -- it was harmless but somehow menacing. It reminded her of some of the machines which people used to make in the olden days." - Roald Dahl
"The contraption itself was like a huge, many-jointed arm, with a clamp at the end, and with all its movements controlled by a computer which itself communicated with the human operator by means of small flashing lights set in a panel." - Arthur C. Clarke
"I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once." - C.S. Lewis