makeshift (n.)
- action
- ad-lib
- agent
- alternate
- alternative
- analogy
- answer
- arrangement
- artifice
- backup
- change
- changeling
- comparison
- contrivance
- copy
- counterfeit
- countermove
- coup
- demarche
- deputy
- device
- dodge
- double
- dummy
- effort
- emergency
- equal
- equivalent
- ersatz
- exchange
- expediency
- expedient
- extemporization
- fake
- fill-in
- ghost
- ghostwriter
- gimmick
- imitation
- imperfect
- impromptu
- improvisation
- lacking
- maneuver
- means
- measure
- metaphor
- metonymy
- mock
- move
- off
- partial
- personnel
- phony
- pinch
- precipitate
- proxy
- recourse
- refuge
- relief
- replacement
- representative
- reserve
- reserves
- resort
- resource
- ringer
- secondary
- shake-up
- shift
- short
- sign
- snap
- solution
- spare
- stand-in
- step
- stopgap
- stratagem
- stroke
- sub
- substitute
- substitution
- succedaneum
- supplanter
- surrogate
- symbol
- synecdoche
- tactic
- temporary
- token
- trick
- trump
- understudy
- unready
- utility
- vicar
- vice-regent
makeshift (adj.)
- ad-lib
- adulterated
- alternate
- alternative
- blemished
- change
- counterfeit
- damaged
- defective
- deficient
- double
- dummy
- equal
- equivalent
- erroneous
- ersatz
- expedient
- extemporaneous
- extemporary
- extempore
- fake
- fallible
- faulty
- haphazard
- hasty
- imitation
- immature
- impaired
- imperfect
- imprecise
- impromptu
- improvised
- impure
- inaccurate
- inadequate
- incomplete
- inexact
- jury-rigged
- lacking
- mediocre
- mixed
- mock
- off
- off-the-cuff
- offhand
- partial
- patchy
- personnel
- phony
- precipitate
- provisional
- representative
- rough-and-ready
- secondary
- shift
- short
- sign
- sketchy
- slapdash
- solution
- spare
- step
- substitute
- surprised
- surrogate
- tactic
- temporary
- tentative
- token
- uncontrived
- undeveloped
- uneven
- unfinished
- unhatched
- unmade
- unorganized
- unplanned
- unpremeditated
- unprepared
- unready
- unrehearsed
- unsound
- unstudied
- utility
- vicarious
- wanting
