Definitions for contrived

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Spelling: [kuh n-trahyvd]

IPA: /kənˈtraɪvd/

Contrived is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 557 anagrams from letters in contrived (cdeinortv).

Definitions for contrived

adjective

1. obviously planned or forced; artificial; strained:

verb (used with object)

1. to plan with ingenuity; devise; invent:
2. to bring about or effect by a plan, scheme, or the like; manage:
3. to plot (evil, treachery, etc.).

verb (used without object)

1. to form designs; plan.
2. to plot.

Origin of contrived

First recorded in 1505-15; contrive + -ed²

Examples for contrived

How contrived that Modern Family would end its season finale with the tried-and-true sitcom trope: a wedding.

How they contrived to keep themselves alive is more than I can imagine.

Bone was a highly competent managing editor, and contrived somehow to squeeze us into the tumultuous Post office.

By this time they had contrived to make the cellar a little more comfortable.

The story is schematic and contrived rather than palpable and lived.

Mrs. Pendarves also contrived to be on good terms with both.

Or, worse, they are contrived to sound tired, perhaps in an attempt to come off as world-weary.

More than likely some of them had contrived a way to get a dinner.

Garson contrived to present an aspect of comparative indifference.

We are constantly bombarded by whining from the right over its contrived war on Christmas.