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make-do
adjective as in makeshift
Strong matches
adjective as in pro tem
Weak matches
- Band-Aid
- acting
- ad hoc
- ad interim
- alternate
- brief
- changeable
- ephemeral
- evanescent
- fleeting
- for the time being
- fugacious
- fugitive
- impermanent
- interim
- limited
- makeshift
- momentary
- mortal
- overnight
- passing
- perishable
- pro tempore
- provisional
- provisory
- shifting
- short
- short-lived
- slapdash
- stopgap
- substitute
- summary
- supply
- temp
- transient
- transitory
- unfixed
- unstable
- volatile
adjective as in short-range
Strongest match
Weak matches
- Band-Aid
- acting
- ad hoc
- ad interim
- alternate
- brief
- changeable
- ephemeral
- evanescent
- fleeting
- for the time being
- fugacious
- fugitive
- impermanent
- interim
- limited
- makeshift
- momentary
- mortal
- overnight
- passing
- perishable
- pro tem
- pro tempore
- provisional
- provisory
- shifting
- short
- short-lived
- short-term
- slapdash
- stopgap
- substitute
- summary
- supply
- temp
- transient
- transitory
- unfixed
- unstable
- volatile
adjective as in short-term
Weak matches
- Band-Aid
- acting
- ad hoc
- ad interim
- alternate
- brief
- changeable
- ephemeral
- evanescent
- fleeting
- for the time being
- fugacious
- fugitive
- impermanent
- makeshift
- mortal
- overnight
- passing
- perishable
- pro tem
- pro tempore
- provisional
- provisory
- shifting
- short
- short-lived
- short-range
- slapdash
- stopgap
- substitute
- summary
- supply
- temp
- transient
- transitory
- unfixed
- unstable
- volatile
adjective as in temporary
Strong matches
noun as in expediency
Strongest match
Strong matches
verb as in fend for
verb as in improvise
Strongest matches
Strong matches
verb as in manage
verb as in wing it
Example Sentences
“Full Time” is canny enough to understand that many people’s make-do existences are ready-made for compassionate thriller-ization.
A flick of a match, and the make-do candle is lit.
And its make-do culture, using whatever is at hand, which often led to comical scenes in settings like museums.
Because of higher costs and limited supplies in the massive, remote state, they embrace an interdependent and make-do ethos to the benefit of their Buddhist community, she said.
The make-do attitude is common these days around Jackson.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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