Word Meanings - STRATAGEM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An artifice or trick in war for deceiving the enemy; hence, in general, artifice; deceptive device; secret plot; evil machination. Fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. Shak. Those oft are stratagems which error seem, Nor is it Homer nods, but

Additional info about word: STRATAGEM

An artifice or trick in war for deceiving the enemy; hence, in general, artifice; deceptive device; secret plot; evil machination. Fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. Shak. Those oft are stratagems which error seem, Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream. Pope.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of STRATAGEM)

• Artifice
• manoeuvre
• cheat
• wile
• contrivance
• craft
• trick
• fraud
• machination
• punning
• imposture
• stratagem
• Craft
• Art
• artifice
• cunning
• guile
• wiliness
• trickery
• duplicity
• chicanery
• intrigue
• underhandedness
• dodge
• Device
• expedient
• design
• plan
• project
• symbol
• emblem
• show
• invention
• cognizance
• Machination
• Contrivance
• plot
• conspiracy
• artful scheme
• Trap
• Snare
• ambush
• noose
• pitfall

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of STRATAGEM)

• Enlighten
• guide
• remunerate
• compensate
• undeceive
• disabuse
• Recal
• withdraw
• draw
• retract
• pull
• attract
• rebound
• recoil
• adduce
• revert
• rebate

Related words: (words related to STRATAGEM)

• SYMBOLISTIC; SYMBOLISTICAL
  Characterized by the use of symbols; as, symbolistic poetry.
• PROJECTION
  The representation of something; delineation; plan; especially, the representation of any object on a perspective plane, or such a delineation as would result were the chief points of the object thrown forward upon the plane, each in the direction
• SNARE
  An instrument, consisting usually of a wireloop or noose, for removing tumors, etc., by avulsion. Snare drum, the smaller common military drum, as distinguished from the bass drum; -- so called because it has stretched across its lower head a
• DESIGN
  drawing, dessein a plan or scheme; all, ultimately, from L. designare to designate; de- + signare to mark, mark out, signum mark, sign. See 1. To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace
• RETRACT
  1. To draw back; to draw up; as, muscles retract after amputation. 2. To take back what has been said; to withdraw a concession or a declaration. She will, and she will not; she grants, denies, Consents, retracts, advances, and then files.
• CRAFTY
  1. Relating to, or characterized by, craft or skill; dexterous. "Crafty work." Piers Plowman. 2. Possessing dexterity; skilled; skillful. A noble crafty man of trees. Wyclif. 3. Skillful at deceiving others; characterized by craft; cunning; wily.
• ARTIFICER
  A military mechanic, as a blacksmith, carpenter, etc.; also, one who prepares the shells, fuses, grenades, etc., in a military laboratory. Syn. -- Artisan; artist. See Artisan. (more info) 1. An artistic worker; a mechanic or manufacturer; one
• RETRACTOR
  One who, or that which, retracts. Specifically: In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel.
• PROJECTMENT
  Design; contrivance; projection. Clarendon.
• SYMBOLISM
  The science of creeds; symbolics. (more info) 1. The act of symbolizing, or the state of being symbolized; as, symbolism in Christian art is the representation of truth, virtues, vices, etc., by emblematic colors, signs, and forms. 2. A system
• CUNNINGNESS
  Quality of being cunning; craft.
• ATTRACTABILITY
  The quality or fact of being attractable. Sir W. Jones.
• EMBLEMIZE
  To represent by an emblem; to emblematize.
• DESIGNATE
  Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
• ATTRACTILE
  Having power to attract.
• ADDUCE
  To bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege. Reasons . . . were adduced on both sides. Macaulay. Enough could not be adduced to satisfy the purpose of illustration.
• WILINESS
  The quality or state of being wily; craftiness; cunning; guile.
• TRICKISH
  Given to tricks; artful in making bargains; given to deception and cheating; knavish. -- Trick"ish*ly, adv. -- Trick"ish*ness, n.
• AMBUSHER
  One lying in ambush.
• REBOUND
  1. To spring back; to start back; to be sent back or reverberated by elastic force on collision with another body; as, a rebounding echo. Bodies which are absolutely hard, or so soft as to be void of elasticity, will not rebound from one another.
• SADDUCEEISM; SADDUCISM
  The tenets of the Sadducees.
• KINGCRAFT
  The craft of kings; the art of governing as a sovereign; royal policy. Prescott.
• REVERT
  To change back. See Revert, v. i. To revert a series , to treat a series, as y = a + bx + cx2 + etc., where one variable y is expressed in powers of a second variable x, so as to find therefrom the second variable x, expressed in a series arranged
• INSNARER
  One who insnares.
• UNBEGUILE
  To set free from the influence of guile; to undeceive. "Then unbeguile thyself." Donne.
• FOREDESIGN
  To plan beforehand; to intend previously. Cheyne.
• TRICK
  The whole number of cards played in one round, and consisting of as many cards as there are players. On one nice trick depends the general fate. Pope. (more info) draw; akin to LG. trekken, MHG. trecken, trechen, Dan. trække, and 1. An artifice