machination

1. 1.

   a crafty and involved plot to achieve your (usually sinister) ends

   Synonymsintrigue

   Broaderplot

   Narrowerpriestcraft

Other forms of machination

plural

machinations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about machination

What does machination mean?

machination means "a crafty and involved plot to achieve your (usually sinister) ends".

How many syllables are in machination?

machination has 4 syllables: mac-hi-na-tion. The stress falls on "na". In IPA it is /ˌmækəˈneɪʃən/.

What is another word for machination?

Close synonyms include intrigue. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is machination a common word?

machination is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with machination?

73 words rhyme with machination. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.