Apparatus
Apparatus noun - Items needed for the performance of a task or activity.
Show all Definitions
Synonyms for Apparatus
Device
Device noun - An article intended for use in work.
Usage example: the salesclerk tried to sell me a new device for grooming cats
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| special | special apparatus | special device |
| elaborate | elaborate apparatus | elaborate device |
| common | common apparatus | common device |
| complex | complex apparatus | complex device |
| Other adjectives: powerful, actual, massive, large, complicated, little, capable, secret, experimental, advanced, mechanical, flying, strange, external, scientific, handy, giant, magical, medical, electrical, technological. | ||
Both words in one sentence
- In North America this device is incorporated into the firefighter's breathing apparatus and the motion sensor activated when the air supply is turned on.
Source: Dead Man Switch - The Ravenloft setting had a monstrous device called The Apparatus which could split any character into two opposing personalities (it could also turn two people into one).
Source: Shadow Archetype -
This is just one condition that the Alchemist's Apparatus, an evil device found the Ravenloft setting can create.
Source: "Freaky Friday" Flip
Cite this Source
Device and Apparatus. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/apparatus/device
Apparatus & Device. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/apparatus/device>.
Device or Apparatus. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/apparatus/device.
Google Ngram Viewer shows how "apparatus" and "device" have occurred on timeline