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Adjective makeshift has 1 sense
- improvised, jury-rigged, makeshift - done or made using whatever is available; "crossed the river on improvised bridges"; "the survivors used jury-rigged fishing gear"; "the rock served as a makeshift hammer"
Antonyms: permanent, lasting (indirect, via impermanent)
Noun makeshift has 1 sense
- makeshift, stopgap - something contrived to meet an urgent need or emergency
--1 is a kind of expedient
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