Kludge

//klʌd͡ʒ//

Synonyms for "kludge" (47 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (10)

Verb(4 words)

bodge botch cludge cobble together

Noun(6 words)

chingadera chummy dingbat dingus doober doodad

Strong matches (14)

Noun(10 words)

doohickey gubbins hack hickey hootenanny how's your father jazz job jobber jobbie

Verb(4 words)

fix up frig hack jury-rig

Related words (23)

Verb(12 words)

kluge knock together knock up macgyver make-do mend patch patch-up rehabilitate repair restore revamp

Noun(11 words)

lash-up rinky-dink stopgap stuff thingy whatsit whatsitsname whiff-whaff whosit widget workaround

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

9 relation types

More general

7 entries

accumulation aggregation assemblage build collection improvise repair

More specific

3 entries

frig fudge hack

Related terms

2 entries

kludgy workaround

derived

1 entries

kludge out

etymologically related_to

2 entries

kludgie kluge

form of

1 entries

kludges

has context

4 entries

computing electronics engineering general programming

is a

1 entries

collection

related to

5 entries

crude device expediently kludgy temporarily

Translations

16 translations across 10 languages.

Catalan

1 entries

nyap noun (construction designed to solve a problem temporarily)

Dutch

1 entries

behelpen noun (construction designed to solve a problem temporarily)

Finnish

2 entries

purkka noun (construction designed to solve a problem temporarily)
purkkaratkaisu noun (construction designed to solve a problem temporarily)

French

1 entries

expédient noun (construction designed to solve a problem temporarily)

German

3 entries

Behelfslösung noun (construction designed to solve a problem temporarily)
Hack noun (construction designed to solve a problem temporarily)
Kniff noun (construction designed to solve a problem temporarily)

Macedonian

1 entries

курафте техника noun (construction designed to solve a problem temporarily)

Polish

1 entries

prowizorka noun (construction designed to solve a problem temporarily)

Portuguese

1 entries

gambiarra noun (construction designed to solve a problem temporarily)

Russian

2 entries

время́нка noun (construction designed to solve a problem temporarily)
косты́ль noun (construction designed to solve a problem temporarily)

Spanish

3 entries

chapuza noun (construction designed to solve a problem temporarily)
truco noun (construction designed to solve a problem temporarily)
ñapa noun (construction designed to solve a problem temporarily)

Sample sentences

1 total sentences available.

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We don’t have time for the perfect solution. We just need a kludge.

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