ARTIFICE meaning: Clever skill or cunning devices

We found 31 dictionaries that define the word artifice:

General (26 matching dictionaries)

artifice: Merriam-Webster
artifice: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
artifice: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
artifice: Collins English Dictionary
artifice: Vocabulary.com
Artifice, artifice: Wordnik
artifice: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
artifice: Wiktionary
artifice: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
artifice: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
artifice: Infoplease Dictionary
artifice: Dictionary.com
artifice: Online Etymology Dictionary
Artifice: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Artifice: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
artifice: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
artifice: Rhymezone
artifice: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
artifice: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
artifice: FreeDictionary.org
artifice: Mnemonic Dictionary
artifice: TheFreeDictionary.com
artifice: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
artifice: Merriam-Webster

Business (3 matching dictionaries)

artifice: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
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artifice: Legal dictionary

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artifice: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

artifice: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  A crafty but underhanded deception.
▸ noun:  A trick played out as an ingenious, but artful, ruse.
▸ noun:  A strategic maneuver that uses some clever means to avoid detection or capture.
▸ noun:  A tactical move to gain advantage.
▸ noun:  (archaic) Something made with technical skill; a contrivance.
▸ verb:  To construct by means of skill or specialised art

Similar:

ruse, cunning, craft, trickery, device, stratagem, wile, undercraft, deceit, artificer, more...

Opposite:

natural, genuine, authentic

Types:

naturalism, realism, impressionism, expressionism, abstractionism, surrealism, futurism, more...

Phrases:

deception by artifice or stratagem, more...

Adjectives:

human, literary, such, mere, little, rhetorical, much, conscious, ingenious, common, theatrical

Colors:

silver, gold, bronze, chrome, neon green, more...