Devising Synonyms and Antonyms

To give (property) to another person after one's death
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. bequeathing
  2. willing
  3. leaving
Arrange by systematic planning and united effort
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. formulating
  2. scheming
  3. preparing
  4. planning
  5. machinating
  6. contriving
  7. inventing
  8. framing
  9. forging
  10. designing
  11. willing
  12. supposing
  13. projecting
  14. plotting
  15. laying
  16. improvising
  17. imagining
  18. forming
  19. fabricating
  20. creating
  21. charting
  22. conveying
  23. consulting
  24. conceiving
  25. constructing
  26. conspiring
  27. concocting
  28. casting
  29. coining
  30. blueprinting
  31. bequeathing
  32. arranging
  33. appointing
  34. organizing
Antonyms:
  1. borrowing
To use ingenuity in making, developing, or achieving
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. fabricating
  2. inventing
  3. hatching
  4. formulating
  5. contriving
  6. concocting
The act that results in something coming to be
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. fashioning
  2. making

Devising Sentence Examples

  • Ever since his death his many friends have been trying to learn the culinary secrets which made a repast of his devising so delicious.

  • Oswald Mosley used to strut around in a black costume of his own devising.

  • They are useful for devising composite rhumb line courses.

  • Frakes is in charge of devising the coaching plans for all of his clients.

  • In devising a system of ventilation it is customary to subdivide the workings so that the resistance to the ventilating current in each split shall be nearly equal, or so that the desired amount of air shall be circulated in each without undue use of regulating appliances which add to the friction and increase the cost of removing the air.

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