COMPLOTS Synonyms

• a deceptive maneuver (especially to avoid capture)

• a clique (often secret) that seeks power usually through intrigue

• a plot to carry out some harmful or illegal act (especially a political plot)

• engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together

• secret agreement

• agreement on a secret plot

• a secret agreement between two or more people to perform an unlawful act

• a plot to carry out some harmful or illegal act (especially a political plot)

• a group of conspirators banded together to achieve some harmful or illegal purpose

• a device or control that is very useful for a particular job

• the faculty of contriving; inventive skill

• an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade

• an artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc.

• any improvised arrangement for temporary use

• the act of devising something

• the act of working out the form of something (as by making a sketch or outline or plan)

• an arrangement scheme

• something intended as a guide for making something else

• a decorative or artistic work

• an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions

• a preliminary sketch indicating the plan for something

• the creation of something in the mind

• make or work out a plan for; devise

• plan something for a specific role or purpose or effect

• create the design for; create or execute in an artistic or highly skilled manner

• make a design of; plan out in systematic, often graphic form

• create designs

• conceive or fashion in the mind; invent

• intend or have as a purpose

• a crafty and involved plot to achieve your (usually sinister) ends

• a clandestine love affair

• cause to be interested or curious

• form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner

• a crafty and involved plot to achieve your (usually sinister) ends

• a military training exercise

• a plan for attaining a particular goal

• a deliberate coordinated movement requiring dexterity and skill

• a move made to gain a tactical end

• an action aimed at evading an opponent

• direct the course; determine the direction of travelling

• act in order to achieve a certain goal

• perform a movement in military or naval tactics in order to secure an advantage in attack or defense

• a plan for attaining a particular goal

• a military training exercise

• a deliberate coordinated movement requiring dexterity and skill

• a move made to gain a tactical end

• an action aimed at evading an opponent

• act in order to achieve a certain goal

• direct the course; determine the direction of travelling

• perform a movement in military or naval tactics in order to secure an advantage in attack or defense

• a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal)

• a small area of ground covered by specific vegetation

• the story that is told in a novel or play or movie etc.

• a chart or graph showing the movements or progress of an object

• plan secretly, usually something illegal

• make a schematic or technical drawing that shows interactions among variables or how something is constructed

• make a plot of

• devise the sequence of events in (a literary work or a play, movie, or ballet)

• an opening remark intended to secure an advantage for the speaker

• a maneuver in a game or conversation

• an elaborate and systematic plan of action

• a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery

• a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole

• an internal representation of the world; an organization of concepts and actions that can be revised by new information about the world

• a schematic or preliminary plan

• form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner

• devise a system or form a scheme for

• a maneuver in a game or conversation

• an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade

• something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity

• verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way

• the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)

• a clique (often secret) that seeks power usually through intrigue

• a plot to carry out some harmful or illegal act (especially a political plot)

• engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together

• summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic

• ask for or request earnestly

• engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together