Synonyms for scenario
noun master plan; sequence of eventsdesigns
- action
- aim
- angle
- animus
- big picture
- brainchild
- child
- conation
- conspiracy
- deliberation
- end
- enterprise
- game plan
- gimmick
- goal
- intendment
- intrigue
- lay of the land
- machination
- meaning
- notion
- object
- objective
- picture
- pitch
- plan
- play
- plot
- point
- project
- proposition
- purport
- purpose
- recipe
- reflection
- scenario
- scene
- schema
- scheme
- setup
- story
- target
- thinking
- thought
- trick
- undertaking
- view
- volition
- what's cooking
- will
game plan
plan
- aim
- angle
- animus
- arrangement
- big picture
- contrivance
- course of action
- deal
- device
- disposition
- expedient
- game plan
- gimmick
- ground plan
- idea
- intent
- intention
- layout
- machination
- meaning
- means
- method
- orderliness
- outline
- pattern
- picture
- platform
- plot
- policy
- procedure
- program
- project
- projection
- proposal
- proposition
- purpose
- scenario
- stratagem
- strategy
- suggestion
- system
- tactics
- treatment
- trick
- undertaking
plans
- aim
- angle
- animus
- arrangement
- big picture
- contrivance
- course of action
- deal
- device
- disposition
- expedient
- game plan
- gimmick
- ground plan
- idea
- intent
- intention
- layout
- machination
- meaning
- means
- method
- orderliness
- outline
- pattern
- picture
- platform
- plot
- policy
- procedure
- program
- project
- projection
- proposal
- proposition
- purpose
- scenario
- stratagem
- strategy
- suggestion
- system
- tactics
- treatment
- trick
- undertaking
Word Origin & History
1868, "sketch of the plot of a play," from Italian scenario, from Late Latin scenarius "of stage scenes," from Latin scena "scene" (see scene). Meaning "imagined situation" is first recorded 1960, in reference to hypothetical nuclear wars.
Example Sentences forscenario
Tell me, now: Do you think you could assist me upon occasion in the preparation of a scenario?
And on the way up towards the park I gets the scenario of the acts I'd missed.
"I'll have to think up some sort of a scenario to go with it," the manager said.
I think we can make use of it, though it wasn't in the scenario.
I have only written in order that I may get the scenario—which had begun to haunt me—off my chest.
The globality of human praxis is not a scenario invented by some entrepreneur.
Do you suppose they will haze you, Ruth, just because you wrote that scenario?
Tom Blacker chuckled, and slipped the scenario back into the envelope.
The quotation on it seemed to be taken directly from her own scenario.
It seemed to him very probable that the scenario had been lost.