| Main Entry: | improvisation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extemporary speech |
Synonyms: |
ad-libbing, autoschediasm, extemporization, speaking off the cuff, spontaneity, winging it |
| Main Entry: | acting |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | entertaining, performing |
Synonyms: |
assuming, characterization, depiction, dramatics, dramatizing, enacting, enactment, feigning, hamming, histrionics, imitating, imitation, impersonation, improvisation, mime, mimicry, pantomime, performance, play acting, playing, portrayal, portraying, posing, posturing, pretending, pretense, putting, rendition, seeming, showing off, simulating, stagecraft, stooging, theatre, theatricals |
| Main Entry: | construction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | creation, building |
Synonyms: |
architecture, arrangement, assembly, build, cast, composition, conception, constitution, contour, cut, development, disposition, edifice, elevation, erecting, erection, fabric, fabricating, fabrication, figuration, figure, form, format, formation, foundation, improvisation, invention, makeup, making, manufacture, mold, origination, outline, plan, planning, prefab, prefabrication, putting up, raising, rearing, roadwork, shape, structure, system, systematization, turn, type |
Antonyms: |
destruction, disfigurement, disorganization, ruin, ruins |
| Main Entry: | device |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ploy, scheme, maneuver |
Synonyms: |
artifice, cabal, chicanery, clever move, craft, craftiness, cunningness, design, dodge, evasion, expedient, fake, feint, finesse, gambit, game, gimmick, improvisation, loophole, machination, method, pattern, plan, plot, project, proposition, purpose, racket, ruse, shift, stratagem, strategy, stunt, subterfuge, trap, trick, wile |
| Main Entry: | fiction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | made-up story |
Synonyms: |
anecdote, best seller, book, cliff-hanger, clothesline, concoction, crock, drama, fable, fabrication, falsehood, fancy, fantasy, fib, figment of imagination, fish story, hooey, imagination, improvisation, invention, legend, lie, misrepresentation, myth, narrative, novel, potboiler, prevarication, romance, smoke*, storytelling, tale, tall story, terminological inexactitude, untruth, whopper, work of imagination, yarn |
Antonyms: |
non-fiction, truth |
| Main Entry: | figment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | creation in one's mind |
Synonyms: |
bubble*, castle in the air, chimera, daydream, dream, fable, fabrication, falsehood, fancy, fantasy, fiction, illusion, improvisation, invention, lie, nightmare, production |
Antonyms: |
reality |
| Main Entry: | stopgap |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | temporary help |
Synonyms: |
Band-Aid, expediency, expedient, improvisation, makeshift, pis aller, recourse, refuge, resort, resource, shift, substitute, temporary expedient |
Antonyms: |
permanency, permanent, solution |
| Main Entry: | spontaneity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | inspiration |
Synonyms: |
ad-libbing, improvisation, impulse, inclination, tendency, whim, will |
| Main Entry: | acting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, noun |
Related
Adjectives: |
Roscian, balatronic, buskined, comic, cothurnal, dramatic, farcical, histrionic, melodramatic, operatic, scenic, stagey, thalian, theatric, theatrical, tragi, tragic
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