Gadget and Object

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Gadget noun - An interesting and often novel device with a practical use.

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Object is a synonym for gadget in device topic. In some cases you can use "Object" instead a noun "Gadget".

Object noun - Something material that can be perceived by the senses.

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Gadget is a synonym for object in thing topic. You can use "Gadget" instead a noun "Object".

special	special gadget	special object
particular	particular gadget	particular object
specific	specific gadget	specific object
certain	certain gadget	certain object
Other adjectives: single, round, obvious, small, actual, real, wrong, main, new, broken, random, titular, strange, different, eponymous.

It may also be an object or gadget introduced early in the story for the sole purpose of solving a sticky situation later on.

Source: Plot Device
The malfunction often involved, instead of whatever gadget was requested, a big hammer coming out of Gadget's head and bonking either him or some other object/person in the area (which occasionally actually turned out well).

Source: Western Animation / Inspector Gadget
Can be subverted when an agent assumes that a mundane object is a gadget, when it is really just what it looks like.

Source: Shoe Phone

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Object and Gadget. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/gadget/object

Gadget & Object. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/gadget/object>.

Object or Gadget. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/gadget/object.

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