makeshift
/ˈmeɪkʃɪft
/adjective
Acting as an interim and temporary measure: arranging a row of chairs to form a makeshift bed...
- Sometimes the hostels are full and homeless women are given makeshift beds, she said.
- I sat on the end of his makeshift bed and we talked about his life, family, and fishing.
- So makeshift solutions were invented, revived and refined to get back a certain air of balance.
Synonyms
temporary, make-do, provisional, stopgap, standby, rough and ready, substitute, emergency, improvised, ad hoc, impromptu, extemporary, extempore, thrown together, cobbled together;
Nautical jury-rigged, jury
informal quick and dirty
noun
A temporary substitute or device.We're looking at a matchup between makeshifts on Saturday....
- Sportsmen's Hall, it turned out, was much less grand than its name implied: all makeshifts and mazes, narrow passages harbored by rude planks.
- Such makeshifts were not uncommon among late-romantics.