CONTRIVED

Meaning of CONTRIVED in English

adj.

Function: adjective

Date: 15th century

: ARTIFICIAL , LABORED <a contrived plot>

Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary. Merriam Webster - Энциклопедический словарь английского языка. 2012

CONTRIVED — adjective Date: 15th century artificial , labored
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
CONTRIVED — -vd adjective Etymology: from past participle of contrive (I) : showing the effects of planning or devising : artificial , …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
CONTRIVED — (imp. & p. p.) of Contrive
Английский словарь Webster
CONTRIVED — ( imp. & p. p. ) of Contrive
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
CONTRIVED — — contrivedly /keuhn truy'vid lee/ , adv. /keuhn truyvd"/ , adj. obviously planned or forced; artificial; strained: a contrived story. …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
CONTRIVED — obviously planned or schemed; labored, artificial
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
CONTRIVED — Date: 15th century : artificial , labored a contrived plot
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
CONTRIVED — impf & ·p.p. of contrive.
Webster English vocab
CONTRIVED — ■ adjective deliberately created rather than arising spontaneously.
Concise Oxford English vocab
CONTRIVED — [contrived] adj (15c): artificial, labored
Merriam-Webster English vocab
CONTRIVED — / kənˈtraɪvd; NAmE / adjective ( disapproving ) planned in advance and not natural or genuine; written or arranged in …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
CONTRIVED — con ‧ trived /kənˈtraɪvd/ BrE AmE adjective seeming false and not natural: The characters are as contrived as the plot.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
CONTRIVED — adj. planned so carefully as to seem unnatural; artificial, forced (the plot seemed contrived).
Английский основной разговорный словарь
CONTRIVED — adj. planned so carefully as to seem unnatural; artificial, forced (the plot seemed contrived).
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
CONTRIVED — adj. planned so carefully as to seem unnatural; artificial, forced (the plot seemed contrived).
Oxford English vocab
CONTRIVED — 1. If you say that something someone says or does is contrived , you think it is false and deliberate, …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
CONTRIVED — 1. If you say that something someone says or does is ~, you think it is false and deliberate, rather …
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
CONTRIVED — adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ One critic described the movie as "a stale and hopelessly contrived comedy". ▪ The …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
CONTRIVED — [adjective] [disapproving]Didn't you think his excuse sounded a bit contrived (= too reasonable rather than honest)?(disapproving) A story, film, play, …
Cambridge English vocab
CONTRIVED — adj.
Oxford Collocations Dictionary Second Edition
CONTRIVED — adj. VERBS ▪ be , seem , sound ADVERB ▪ extremely , fairly , very , etc. ▪ highly ▪ …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
CONTRIVED — See ↑ REAL 8
Longman Activator English vocab
CONTRIVED — adj. 25B6; adjective FORCED, strained, studied, artificial, affected, put-on, pretended, false, feigned, manufactured, unnatural; laboured, overdone, elaborate. natural.
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
CONTRIVED — прил. хитросплетенный; запутанный Syn : intricate, fine-spun напускной, натянутый - * gaiety напускное веселье - * excitement притворное волнение
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
CONTRIVED — Вымышленный
Американский Англо-Русский словарь
CONTRIVED — Вымышлен
Американский Англо-Русский словарь
CONTRIVED — Выдуманный
Американский Англо-Русский словарь
CONTRIVED — a напускной, натянутый contrived gaiety - напускное веселье contrived excitement - притворное волнение
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
CONTRIVED — a напускной, натянутый contrived gaiety - напускное веселье contrived excitement - притворное волнение
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
CONTRIVED — прил. неестественный, напускной, натянутый contrived joke — неостроумная, натянутая шутка a film with a predictable plot and contrived characters — …
Англо-Русский словарь по общей лексике
CONTRIVED — прил. неестественный, напускной, натянутый contrived joke — неостроумная, натянутая шутка a film with a predictable plot and contrived characters — фильм с предсказуемым …
Англо-Русский словарь общей лексики
CONTRIVED — Выдуман
Американский Англо-Русский словарь
CONTRIVED — прил.хитросплетенный; запутанный Syn:intricate, fine-spun
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
CONTRIVED — (a) напускной; натянутый
English-Russian Lingvistica'98 dictionary
CONTRIVED — a напускной, натянутый ~ gaiety - напускное веселье ~ excitement - притворное волнение
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь - Апресян, Медникова
CONTRIVED — прил. хитросплетенный; запутанный Syn : intricate, fine-spun напускной, натянутый - * gaiety напускное веселье - * excitement притворное волнение
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь

Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary

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