Associations to the word «Contraption»
Noun
Adjective
Adverb
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
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.