The meaning of CONTRIVED is having an unnatural or false appearance or quality : artificial, labored. How to use contrived in a sentence.

Natural and artificial (Definition of contrived from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

Definition of contrived adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

CONTRIVED definition: obviously planned or forced; artificial; strained. See examples of contrived used in a sentence.

The adjective contrived describes something that is artificially planned, especially in an obvious way, so it comes across as faked or forced. It's not just drama that can come off as contrived.

If you say that something someone says or does is contrived, you think it is false and deliberate, rather than natural and not planned.

Obviously planned or calculated; not spontaneous or natural; labored: a novel with a contrived ending.

The movie's contrived ending was a big disappointment. The results of the test seemed somewhat contrived.

con•trive (kən trīv′), v., -trived, -triv•ing. v.t. to plan with ingenuity; devise; invent: The author contrived a clever plot. to bring about or effect by a plan, scheme, or the like; manage: He contrived to gain their …

The meaning of CONTRIVE is devise, plan. How to use contrive in a sentence.