artifice
Meaning of artifice
noun
- A crafty but underhanded deception.
- A trick played out as an ingenious, but artful, ruse.
- A strategic maneuver that uses some clever means to avoid detection or capture.
- A tactical move to gain advantage.
- Something made with technical skill; a contrivance.
verb
To construct by means of skill or specialised art
Information about artifice
- The plural form of artifice is: artifices.
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Hyphenation of artifice
ar-ti-fice
- It consists of 3 syllables and 8 chars.
- artifice is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
artifice synonyms
Meaning ruse:
Translation of artifice
- Italian: artificio, stratagemma
- Spanish: artificio, truco, astucia, artimaña, ardid, estratagema
- French: artifice, ruse
- Portuguese: artimanha
- German: List, Finte, Kniff
Anagrams of artifice
Words that rhyme with artifice
fice, benefice, malefice, venefice, LibreOffice, Office, interoffice, intraoffice, office, outoffice, overoffice, postoffice, suboffice, suffice, edifice, lanifice, magnifice, nonsacrifice, opifice, orifice, pontifice, presacrifice, resacrifice, sacrifice, supersacrifice, bullfice, superfice, satisfice
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