- makeshifty
- make·shifty
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makeshifty
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makeshifty — adjective see makeshift II … Useful english dictionary
makeshift — /mayk shift /, n. 1. a temporary expedient or substitute: We used boxes as a makeshift while the kitchen chairs were being painted. adj. 2. Also, makeshifty. serving as, or of the nature of, a makeshift. [1555 65; n., adj. use of v. phrase make… … Universalium
improvised — Synonyms and related words: ad hoc, ad libitum, ad lib, band aid, caught napping, caught off balance, caught short, extemporaneous, extemporary, extempore, extemporized, haphazard, hasty, impromptu, improvisational, improvisatorial, improvise,… … Moby Thesaurus
jury rigged — Synonyms and related words: ad hoc, ad libitum, ad lib, band aid, extemporaneous, extemporary, extempore, impromptu, improvisational, improvisatorial, improvise, improvised, improviso, makeshift, makeshifty, off the cuff, offhand, provisional,… … Moby Thesaurus
makeshift — Synonyms and related words: action, ad hoc, ad hoc measure, ad lib, ad libitum, ad lib, ad libbing, adulterated, agent, alternate, alternative, analogy, answer, arrangement, artifice, backup, band aid, blemished, caught napping, caught off… … Moby Thesaurus
provisional — Synonyms and related words: accidental, ad hoc, adventitious, aleatory, alternate, alternative, backup, band aid, casual, circumstantial, conditional, contingent, counterfeit, cut and try, dangerous, dependent, desultory, dummy, empirical,… … Moby Thesaurus
stopgap — Synonyms and related words: action, ad hoc, ad hoc measure, ad lib, ad libitum, ad lib, ad libbing, alternate, alternative, answer, arrangement, artifice, backup, band aid, bung, check valve, cock, contrivance, cork, counterfeit, countermove,… … Moby Thesaurus
temporary — Synonyms and related words: acting, ad hoc, ad interim, alternate, alternative, backup, band aid, blue collar worker, breadwinner, brittle, capricious, casual, casual laborer, changeable, common laborer, corruptible, counterfeit, dangerous, day… … Moby Thesaurus
tentative — Synonyms and related words: acting, ad hoc, ad interim, alternate, alternative, ambling, analytic, apprehensive, awkward, backup, band aid, blankminded, callow, canny, careful, cautious, circumspect, claudicant, counterfeit, crawling, creeping,… … Moby Thesaurus
