Contrived
/kənˈtɹaɪvd/ adj, verb
adj, verb ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 simple past and past participle of contrive form-of, participle, past
Adjective
- 1 Created in a deliberate, rather than natural or spontaneous, way.
"contrived joke"
- 2 Unnatural, forced; artificial, or unrealistic.
Adjective
- 1 artificially formal wordnet
- 2 showing effects of planning or manipulation wordnet
Example
More examples"It is certain that Emmet contrived his 'dyad' style to facilitate the process of architectural design."