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contrived - 20 thesaurus results
Main Entry: contrived
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: overly planned
Synonyms: affected, artificial, elaborate, fake, false, forced, labored, overdone, phony, strained, unnatural, manipulated, recherché, unspontaneous
Main Entry: contrive
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: invent, design
Synonyms: come up with, concoct, construct, cook up, create, devise, dream up*, engineer, fabricate, fashion, forge, form, formulate, frame*, handle, hatch, improvise, make, make up*, manipulate, manufacture, move, plan, plot, project, rig*, scheme, vamp, wangle, whip up*, throw together, trump up
Antonyms: disorganize
Main Entry: contrive
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: bring about, succeed with difficulty
Synonyms: achieve, angle, arrange, carry out, cogitate, collude, compass, concoct, connive, develop, devise, effect, elaborate, engineer, execute, finagle*, hatch, intrigue, jockey*, machinate, manage, maneuver, manipulate, mastermind, negotiate, pass, plan, plot, project, scheme, shift, swing, work out, wrangle, hit upon, play games
Antonyms: demolish, destroy, ruin, stop, waste, wreck
Main Entry: forced
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: compulsory, strained
Synonyms: affected, artificial, binding, bound, contrived, enforced, factitious, false, inflexible, insincere, involuntary, labored, mandatory, obligatory, peremptory, rigid, slave, stiff, stringent, unnatural, unwilling, wooden*, begrudging, coerced, coercive, compelled, conscripted, constrained, grudging
Notes: forcible indicates the use of brute force, forced means done involuntarily, and forceful suggests a potential for force
Antonyms: spontaneous, voluntary, noncompulsory, unforced
Main Entry: labored
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: difficult to understand, unclear
Synonyms: affected, arduous, awkward, clumsy, contrived, forced, hard, heavy, inept, maladroit, operose, overdone, overwrought, ponderous, stiff, strained, strenuous, studied, toilsome, unnatural, uphill*, weighty, effortful
Antonyms: easy, facile, natural, relaxed
Main Entry: premeditated
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: planned, intended
Synonyms: advised, calculated, conscious, considered, contrived, deliberate, fixed, intentional, studied, willful, aforethought, designed, framed up, laid-out, prepense, purposed, rigged, set-up, sewn-up, stacked deck, thought-out
Antonyms: accidental, casual, spontaneous
Main Entry: spurious
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: counterfeit, fake
Synonyms: affected, apocryphal, artificial, assumed, bastard*, bent, bogus, bum, contrived, deceitful, deceptive, dummy*, ersatz, false, feigned, forged, framed, illegitimate, imitation, make-believe, mock, phony, pirate, pretend, pretended, pseudo*, sham*, simulated, specious, substitute, unreal, faked, put-on, unauthentic, ungenuine
Antonyms: authentic, genuine, real, true
Main Entry: unnatural
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: not regular; artificial
Synonyms: aberrant, abnormal, affected, anomalous, assumed, bizarre, contrary, contrived, ersatz*, extraordinary, factitious, false, feigned, forced, freakish, imitation, incredible, insincere, irregular, labored, made-up*, make-believe*, odd, outlandish, outrageous, perverse, perverted, phony, preposterous, pseudo*, queer, stiff, stilted*, strained, strange, studied, supernatural, synthetic, theatrical, unaccountable, uncanny, unorthodox, unusual, concocted, fabricated, freaky, put-on, staged, unconforming
Antonyms: acceptable, genuine, natural, real
Main Entry: made
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: fashioned
Synonyms: built, contrived, finished, manufactured, formed, invented, shaped
Main Entry: operated
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: conducted
Synonyms: accomplished, contrived, determined, directed, driven, enforced, executed, finished, fulfilled, governed, handled, managed, moved, ordered, practiced, regulated, run, served, supervised, sustained, transported, used, worked, achieved, administered, conveyed, guided, maintained, manipulated, negotiated, performed, promoted, revolved, superintended, transacted, turned, wielded
Main Entry: affected
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: changed in a bad or artificial way
Synonyms: apish, artificial, assumed, awkward, campy, chichi*, conceited, contrived, counterfeit, counterfeited, faked, false, feigned, fraud*, gone Hollywood, ham*, hammy, high falutin', hollow, imitated, insincere, melodramatic, ostentatious, overdone, pedantic, phony, playacting, pompous, precious, pretended, pretentious, put-on, schmaltzy, self-conscious, shallow, sham*, simulated, spurious, stiff, stilted, studied, superficial, theatrical, unnatural
Antonyms: ok, unchanged, unhurt, unimpaired, uninjured
Main Entry: artificial
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: pretended; affected
Synonyms: assumed, contrived, false, feigned, forced, hollow, insincere, labored, mannered, meretricious, phony*, spurious, theatrical, unnatural, put-on
Antonyms: genuine, natural, unaffected, unpretentious
Main Entry: false
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: fake, counterfeit
Synonyms: adulterated, artificial, assumed, bent, bogus*, bum*, colored, contrived, copied, crock*, deceptive, disguised, ersatz*, factitious, feigned, fishy*, forged, framed*, hollow, imitation, made-up, make-believe, manufactured, meretricious, mock, ostensible, phony, pretended, pseudo*, seeming, shady, sham*, simulated, snide, so-called*, spurious, substitute, synthetic, unreal, wrong, alloyed, brummagem, fabricated
Antonyms: actual, genuine, real, valid
Main Entry: affect
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: pretend, imitate
Synonyms: act, adopt, assume, bluff, contrive, counterfeit, fake, feign, put on, sham*, simulate, take on, aspire to, do a bit, lay it on thick, make out like, playact, put up a front
Main Entry: angle for
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: attempt to get
Synonyms: connive, conspire, contrive, fish for, hint, hunt, invite, maneuver, plan, plot, scheme, seek, solicit, strive, aim for, be after, cast about for, look for, try for
Main Entry: arrange
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: make plans, often involving agreement
Synonyms: adapt, adjust, agree to, blueprint, chart, compromise, concert, construct, contrive, decide, design, determine, devise, direct, draft, establish, frame*, harmonize, iron out*, lay out, manage, negotiate, organize, prepare, project, promote, provide, resolve, schedule, scheme, settle, tailor, work out, come to terms, get act together, get ready, hammer out a deal, line up, make a connection, make ready, map out, pull a wire, pull things together, quarterback, set stage, shape up, work out a deal
Antonyms: disorganize, not plan
Main Entry: assemble
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: put together
Synonyms: compile, connect, construct, contrive, erect, fabricate, fashion, fit, form, join, make, manufacture, model, mold, produce, set up, shape, unite, weld, piece together
Antonyms: divide, separate, take apart
Main Entry: brew
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: plan, devise
Synonyms: breed, compound, concoct, contrive, develop, excite, foment, form, gather, hatch, loom, mull, plot, project, scheme, start, weave, impend, stir up
Main Entry: build
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: construct structure
Synonyms: assemble, bring about, carpenter, cast, compile, compose, contrive, engineer, erect, evolve, fabricate, fashion, forge, form, frame, make, manufacture, model, produce, put together, put up, raise, rear, reconstruct, sculpture, set up, synthesize, throw up*, fit together, jerry-build, knock together, prefabricate, superstruct, throw together
Antonyms: demolish, destroy, dismantle, raze, ruin, take down, knock down
Main Entry: coin
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: create, invent
Synonyms: brainstorm*, compose, conceive, contrive, counterfeit, dream up, fabricate, forge, formulate, frame, head trip, make up, make up off the top of one's head, manufacture, mint, mold, originate, spark, spitball, stamp, strike, think up, trump up
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