Associations to the word «Contraption»

Wiktionary

CONTRAPTION, noun. A machine that is complicated and precarious.
CONTRAPTION, noun. (figuratively) (derogatory or ironic) Any object.

Dictionary definition

CONTRAPTION, noun. A device or control that is very useful for a particular job.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne