"contrived" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

IPA: /kənˈtɹaɪvd/ Audio: en-us-contrived.ogg [US] Forms: more contrived [comparative], most contrived [superlative]
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  1. Created in a deliberate, rather than natural or spontaneous, way. Translations (created in a deliberate way): 人為的 /人为的 (rénwéi de) (Chinese Mandarin), 刻意的 (kèyì de) (Chinese Mandarin), tarkoituksellinen (Finnish), teennäinen (Finnish), pakotettu (Finnish), megrendezett (Hungarian), beállított (Hungarian), kiagyalt (Hungarian), kieszelt (Hungarian), deliberado (Portuguese), неесте́ственный (nejestéstvennyj) (Russian), иску́сственно со́зданный (iskússtvenno sózdannyj) (Russian), специа́льно со́зданный (speciálʹno sózdannyj) (Russian), muy elaborado (Spanish), maquinado (Spanish), complotado (Spanish), urdido (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-contrived-en-adj-Ay0bd9eL Categories (other): English terms with collocations Disambiguation of 'created in a deliberate way': 96 4
  2. Unnatural, forced; artificial, or unrealistic. Translations (unnatural, forced): artificial (Catalan), forçat (Catalan), 不自然的 (bùzìrán de) (Chinese Mandarin), 做作的 (zuòzuo de) (Chinese Mandarin), 人為的 /人为的 (rénwéi de) (Chinese Mandarin), 矯揉造作的 /矫揉造作的 (jiǎoróuzàozuò de) (Chinese Mandarin), gekunsteld (Dutch), slinks (Dutch), bedrieglijk (Dutch), bij de haren getrokken (Dutch), väkinäinen (Finnish), teennäinen (Finnish), epäaito (Finnish), pakotettu (Finnish), artificiel (French), forcé (French), affecté (French), feint (French), არაბუნებრივი (arabunebrivi) (Georgian), ნაძალადევი (naʒaladevi) (Georgian), unnatürlich (German), gezwungen (German), gekünstelt (German), künstlich (German), σχεδιασμένος (schediasménos) (Greek), σκηνοοθετημένος (skinoothetiménos) (Greek), मनगढ़ंत (managṛhant) (Hindi), कल्पित (kalpit) (Hindi), mesterkélt (Hungarian), erőltetett (Hungarian), művi (Hungarian), keresett (Hungarian), tacair (Irish), oppkonstruert (Norwegian Bokmål), kunstig (Norwegian Bokmål), wydumany (Polish), sztuczny (Polish), przekombinowany (Polish), forțat (Romanian), artificial (Romanian), неесте́ственный (nejestéstvennyj) (Russian), artificioso (Spanish), krystad (Swedish), långsökt (Swedish)
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: staged, insincere, factitious, hokey [informal] Derived forms: contrivedly, contrivedness, uncontrived

Verb [English]

IPA: /kənˈtɹaɪvd/ Audio: en-us-contrived.ogg [US]
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  1. simple past and past participle of contrive Tags: form-of, participle, past Form of: contrive
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          "word": "मनगढ़ंत"
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-09-16 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (d6fca27 and 65e1673). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.