Word Meanings - CONTRAPTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A contrivance; a new-fangled device; -- used scornfully. [Colloq. or Dial.] -- Con*trap"tious (#), a. We all remember some of the extraordinary contraptions which have been thus evolved and put upon the market. F. M. Ware.

• Rememberable
  Capable or worthy of being remembered.
• Extraordinary
  Beyond or out of the common order or method; not usual, customary, regular, or ordinary; as, extraordinary evils; extraordinary remedies.
• Rememberer
  One who remembers.
• Colloquial
  Pertaining to, or used in, conversation, esp. common and familiar conversation; conversational; hence, unstudied; informal; as, colloquial intercourse; colloquial phrases; a colloquial style.
• Colloquialism
  A colloquial expression, not employed in formal discourse or writing.
• Whichever
  Alt. of Whichsoever
• Colloquialize
  To make colloquial and familiar; as, to colloquialize one's style of writing.
• Fangleness
  Quality of being fangled.
• Whichsoever
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one (of two or more) which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• Colloquist
  A speaker in a colloquy or dialogue.
• WHICHEVERWHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one (of two or more) which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• Colloquies
  of Colloquy
• Marketed
  of Market

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