Synonyms of the word connive


CONNIVEACCEDE - ACQUIESCE - ASSENT - INTRIGUE - PLOT - SCHEME

connive

  • v. To cooperate with others secretly in order to commit a crime; to collude.
  • v. To plot or scheme.
  • v. To pretend to be ignorant of something in order to escape blame; to ignore a fault deliberately.
  • v. (archaic) To open and close the eyes rapidly; to wink.

accede

  • v. (archaic, intransitive) To approach; to arrive, to come forward.
  • v. (intransitive, now rare) To give one's adhesion; to join up with (a group, etc.); to become part of.
  • v. (intransitive) To agree or assent to a proposal or a view; to give way.
  • v. (intransitive) To come to an office, state or dignity; to attain, assume (a position).
  • v. (intransitive) To become a party to an agreement or a treaty.

acquiesce

  • v. (intransitive, with in (or sometimes with, to)) To rest satisfied, or apparently satisfied, or to rest…
  • v. (intransitive) To concur upon conviction; as, to acquiesce in an opinion; to assent to; usually, to concur,…

assent

  • v. To agree, to give approval.
  • v. To admit a thing as true.
  • n. agreement, act of agreeing.

intrigue

  • n. A complicated or clandestine plot or scheme intended to effect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy;…
  • n. The plot of a play, poem or romance; the series of complications in which a writer involves their imaginary…
  • n. Clandestine intercourse between persons; illicit intimacy; a liaison or affair.
  • v. (intransitive) To conceive or carry out a secret plan intended to harm; to form a plot or scheme.
  • v. (transitive) To arouse the interest of; to fascinate.
  • v. (intransitive) To have clandestine or illicit intercourse.
  • v. (transitive) To fill with artifice and duplicity; to complicate.

plot

  • n. The course of a story, comprising a series of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected…
  • n. An area or land used for building on or planting on.
  • n. A graph or diagram drawn by hand or produced by a mechanical or electronic device.
  • n. A secret plan to achieve an end, the end or means usually being illegal or otherwise questionable.
  • n. Contrivance; deep reach thought; ability to plot or intrigue.
  • n. Participation in any stratagem or conspiracy.
  • n. A plan; a purpose.
  • v. (transitive) To conceive (a crime, etc).
  • v. (transitive) To trace out (a graph or diagram).
  • v. (transitive) To mark (a point on a graph, chart, etc).
  • v. (intransitive) To conceive a crime, misdeed, etc.

scheme

  • n. A systematic plan of future action.
  • n. A plot or secret, devious plan.
  • n. An orderly combination of related parts.
  • n. A chart or diagram of a system or object.
  • n. (mathematics) A type of topological space.
  • n. (Britain, chiefly Scotland) A council housing estate.
  • n. (rhetoric) An artful deviation from the ordinary arrangement of words.
  • n. (astrology) A representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies for any moment or at a given event.
  • v. (intransitive) To plot, or contrive a plan.

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