Artifice Synonyms and Antonyms

ärtə-fĭs
Trickery
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. cunning
  2. guile
  3. art
  4. artfulness
  5. craft
  6. craftiness
  7. foxiness
  8. deceit
  9. slyness
  10. wiliness
  11. connivery
  12. underplot
  13. schemery
Antonyms:
  1. truthfulness
  2. honor
  3. reality
  4. honesty
  5. frankness
  6. candor
  7. openness
  8. ingenuousness
  9. sincerity
  10. innocence
Skill
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. skill
  2. ingenuity
  3. inventiveness
Antonyms:
  1. inability
  2. incapacity
  3. uncleverness
  4. artlessness
  5. simplicity
Something contrived or made up to achieve an end, especially by deceiving; a stratagem or ruse:
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. wile
  2. dodgery
  3. ficelle
  4. supercherie

Words Related to Artifice

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Artifice Sentence Examples

  • Gibbon's stylistic artifice both averted the peril of prosecution and rendered the attack more telling.

  • In this he succeeded, though not without a good deal of artifice, more creditable to his ingenuity than to his virtue.

  • The dominating milieu in which we live is a technical artifice.

  • It is poetic artifice and not nature that is the key term here.

  • Henry, who saw through the artifice, and was already looking round for a more popular successor to Wolsey, made the gracious answer that he would employ More otherwise.

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