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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. An agreement to perform together an illegal, wrongful, or subversive act.
  2. n. A group of conspirators.
  3. n. Law An agreement between two or more persons to commit a crime or accomplish a legal purpose through illegal action.
  4. n. A joining or acting together, as if by sinister design: a conspiracy of wind and tide that devastated coastal areas.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A combination of persons for an evil purpose; an agreement between two or more persons to commit in concert something reprehensible, injurious, or illegal; particularly, a combination to commit treason, or excite sedition or insurrection; a plot; concerted treason. In legal usage a conspiracy is a combination of two or more persons, by some concerted action, to accomplish some criminal or unlawful purpose, or to accomplish some purpose not in itself criminal or unlawful by criminal or unlawful means. The term was formerly used in English law more specifically to designate an agreement between two or more persons falsely and maliciously to indict, or procure to be indicted, an innocent person of felony.
  2. n. Hence Any concurrence in action; combination in bringing about a given result.
  3. n. Synonyms Intrigue, cabal, machination.
  4. n. An ancient writ which was issued against parties alleged to be guilty of a conspiracy to indict a party for treason or a felony.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The act of two or more persons, called conspirators, working secretly to obtain some goal, usually understood with negative connotations.
  2. n. law An agreement between two or more persons to break the law at some time in the future.
  3. n. A group of ravens.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A combination of people for an evil purpose; an agreement, between two or more persons, to commit a crime in concert, as treason; a plot.
  2. n. A concurence or general tendency, as of circumstances, to one event, as if by agreement.
  3. n. (Law) An agreement, manifesting itself in words or deeds, by which two or more persons confederate to do an unlawful act, or to use unlawful to do an act which is lawful; confederacy.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a group of conspirators banded together to achieve some harmful or illegal purpose
  2. n. a plot to carry out some harmful or illegal act (especially a political plot)
  3. n. a secret agreement between two or more people to perform an unlawful act

Etymologies

  1. The verb conspire generally accepted of coming from the Latin roots con ("with"), and spiro ("I breathe") — so 'to conspire' literally means 'to breathe together'. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English conspiracie, from Anglo-Norman, probably alteration of Old French conspiration, from Latin cōnspīrātiō, cōnspīrātiōn-, from cōnspīrātus, past participle of cōnspīrāre, to conspire; see conspire. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (16)

Words with the same meaning

  1. cabal
  2. combination
  3. plot
  1. confederacy
  2. concert
  3. plant
  1. coöperation
  2. complot
  3. conspiration
  1. covin
  2. synomosy
  3. practice
  1. machination
  2. intrigue
  3. boycott
  1. collusion

antonyms (2)

Words with the opposite meaning

  1. disagreement
  1. contention

hypernyms (4)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. band
  1. set
  1. lot
  1. circle

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Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. plot
  2. fraud
  3. intrigue
  1. treachery
  2. rebellion
  3. crime
  1. insurrection
  2. outrage
  3. assault
  1. scandal
  2. corruption
  3. revolution
  1. abuse
  2. scheme
  3. deception
  1. massacre
  2. enterprise
  3. falsehood
  1. conflict

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. Gunpowder Plot
  2. conspiracy of silence
  3. conspiracy
  4. cabal
  5. plot
  6. conspiringly
  7. intrigue
  8. complot
  9. confederacy
  10. conjuration
  11. conspiration
  12. conspirator
  1. conspiratorial
  2. catilinarian
  3. unconspiringness
  4. powder-treason
  5. synomosy
  6. conspirital
  7. Anti-Submarine
  8. agitprop
  9. frame-up
  10. catilinism
  11. combine
  12. complotment
  1. complottingly
  2. conjurison
  3. conspirant
  4. Decembrist
  5. Moon
  6. Burr
  7. Beria
  8. Sallust
  9. Commodus
  10. conspiracist
  11. to fob off
  12. sun myung moon
  1. vile
  2. nip
  3. involved
  4. trump
  5. delusions of persecution
  6. gaius cassius longinus
  7. machinate
  8. machinator
  9. marcus junius brutus
  10. moon
  11. plotter
  12. Brutus
  1. Cassius
  2. Cassius Longinus
  3. coconspirator
  4. combination in restraint of trade
  5. conjure
  6. conspirative
  7. conspire
  8. whiskey ring
  9. concoct
  10. foul
  11. Luddite
  12. ramification
  1. Star Chamber
  2. traitorous

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  1. animals
  2. aim
  3. collective nouns
  4. the enterprise knows the gameplan
  1. the goal is a gimmick ya know
  2. the intendment of intrigue
  3. lays the land with machinations
  4. -meaning notions about objects and objectives
  1. they pitch the pictures
  2. plan the plays
  3. plot the points and project
  4. propositions that purport purpose
  1. the recipe is reflected in scenarios
  2. the scenes of schemes set up the story
  3. the target is thinking
  4. a thought trick undertakes views volition and will
  1. the action
  2. and angle
  3. the big picture is the brainchild of conations
  4. -a conspiracy of deliberation to the end
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Words tagged ‘conspiracy’

  1. cabal
  1. conspirationist
  1. in cahoots
  1. pronoia

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  • bilby "Organizing a community around a basic issue of survival, such as food, makes a lot of nitty gritty sense. After your conspiracy gets off the ground and looks permanent, you should seek to expand it to include more members and an emergency food fund should be set up in case something happens in the community. There should also be a fund whereby the conspiracy can sponsor free community dinners tied into celebrations. Get it together and join the fight for a world-wide food conspiracy."
    - Abbie Hoffman, 'Steal This Book', 1971. Feb 19, 2009

  • oroboros CONSPIRACY: Theories of mortal conspiracies reflect ordinary consciousness' secular attempt to tie everything together; it is the ventriloquist dummy's cellular recognition of unidentified forces behind the words coming out of his mouth. --Jan Cox Jan 24, 2008

  • skipvia A flock of ravens Nov 15, 2007

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