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- Dictionarycontrive/kənˈtrʌɪv/
verb
- 1. create or bring about (an object or a situation) by deliberate use of skill and artifice: "his opponents contrived a cabinet crisis" Similar
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CONTRIVE definition: 1. to arrange a situation or event, or arrange for something to happen, using clever planning: 2…. Learn more.
1. a. : devise, plan. contrive ways of handling the situation. The prisoners contrived a way to escape. b. : to form or create in an artistic or ingenious manner. contrived household utensils from stone. Native Americans contrived weapons out of stone, wood, and bone. 2. : to bring about by stratagem or with difficulty : manage.
When you contrive, you make a plan or a plot. It may take you longer to contrive your way out of doing your homework than would to actually do it. Even though contrive often has a false or cunning feel to it, it is not always a bad thing.
Contrive definition: to plan with ingenuity; devise; invent. See examples of CONTRIVE used in a sentence.
1. (transitive) to manage (something or to do something), esp by means of a trick; engineer. he contrived to make them meet. 2. (transitive) to think up or adapt ingeniously or elaborately. he contrived a new mast for the boat. 3. to plot or scheme ( treachery, evil, etc) Collins English Dictionary.
CONTRIVE meaning: 1. to arrange a situation or event, or arrange for something to happen, using clever planning: 2…. Learn more.
Definition of contrive verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
1. ( tr) to manage (something or to do something), esp by means of a trick; engineer: he contrived to make them meet. 2. ( tr) to think up or adapt ingeniously or elaborately: he contrived a new mast for the boat. 3. to plot or scheme (treachery, evil, etc)
CONTRIVE meaning: 1 : to form or think of (a plan, method, etc.); 2 : to form or make (something) in a skillful or clever way.
contrive something to think of or make something, for example a plan or a machine, in a skillful way They contrived a plan to defraud the company. See contrive in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Check pronunciation: contrive. Definition of contrive verb in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary.
