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Word | Contrived |
Swedish Meaning | hitta på, konstlad, konstruerad, |
artificially formal; that artificial humility that her husband hated; contrived coyness; a stilted letter of acknowledgment; when people try to correct their speech they develop a stilted pronunciation / showing effects of planning or manipulation / of Contrive / forced; artificial; not spontaneous / deliberately created rather than arising naturally or spontaneously. / having an unnatural or false appearance or quality, | |
Usage | ⇒ A contrived news about her missing intended to mislead her family ⇒ Feeling ill at ease with his new in-laws, James made a few contrived attempts at conversation and then retreated into silence. ⇒ The movie's contrived ending was a big disappointment. ⇒ Here, however, several contrived situations are grafted into the plot to generate artificial tension. |
Synonyms | artificial, planned, unnatural, affected, premeditated, stilted, designed, forced, created, fabricated, false, feigned, hokey, studied, arranged, calculated, intended, intentional, mannered, plotted, |
Antonyms | artless, unaffected, unfeigned, authentic, genuine, honest, ingenuous, natural, real, realistic, spontaneous, true, uncontrived, unplanned, bold, bona fide, broad, brusque, candid, childlike, |
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