contrive

Verb

Meaning

To form by an exercise of ingenuity; to devise; to invent; to design; to plan.

To make devices; to form designs; to plan; to scheme; to plot.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

design project plan hatch cast plot throw discover formulate devise forge invent excogitate carpenter gar
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Antonyms

cleave end close butcher damage stop
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Hypernyms

direct send create by mental act create mentally

Hyponyms

map plot concert shoot map out

Phrases with the word

contrive to reveal

Derivatives

contrived contriving

Anagrams

renovict

Examples

Why not? Why not?Why not not, then, if the best reasoning you can contrive is why not? David Foster Wallace

Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new impositions, any bungler can add to the old. Edmund Burke

It took Marvel Comics years to begin to put together any worthwhile superheroines. The first crop was, to a gal, embarrassingly disappointing. They had all the measly powers that fifties and sixties male chauvinism could contrive to bestow on a superwoman. Michael Chabon

I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and Twitter to contrive fiction. Patrick Nielsen Hayden

If you must commit suicide – and there is no knowing to what people may be brought – always contrive to do it as decorously as possible; the decencies, whether of life or of death, should never be lost sight of. George Borrow

You must contrive to bake with the flour you have. Danish Proverb

Close letter words and terms

contrivance contrivancy contrivble contrive to contrive contrived contrived encounters