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Synonyms and Antonyms of contrive

synonym (synonym of contrive)

  • (verb.creation)
    design, plan, project
    make or work out a plan for; devise (verb.creation)
     
  • (verb.creation)
    devise, excogitate, forge, formulate, invent
    come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort (verb.creation)
     
  • (verb.creation)
    cast, project, throw
    put or send forth (verb.creation)
     

hypernym (contrive IS A KIND OF .... relation)

  • come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort (verb.creation)
    create by mental act, create mentally
    create mentally and abstractly rather than with one's hands (verb.creation)
     
  • put or send forth (verb.creation)
    direct, send
    cause to go somewhere (verb.motion)
     

hyponym (.... IS A KIND OF contrive relation)

  • make or work out a plan for; devise (verb.creation)
    plot
    devise the sequence of events in (a literary work or a play, movie, or ballet) (verb.creation)
     
  • (verb.creation)
    concert
    contrive (a plan) by mutual agreement (verb.creation)
     
  • (verb.creation)
    map, map out
    plan, delineate, or arrange in detail (verb.creation)
     
  • put or send forth (verb.creation)
    shoot
    send forth suddenly, intensely, swiftly (verb.motion)
     

derivation (.... is derived from contrive)

  • come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort (verb.creation)
    devising, fashioning, making
    the act that results in something coming to be (noun.act)
     
  • (noun.act)
    invention
    the act of inventing (noun.act)
     
  • (noun.act)
    contrivance, devisal
    the act of devising something (noun.act)
     
  • (noun.act)
    conceptualisation, conceptualization, formulation
    inventing or contriving an idea or explanation and formulating it mentally (noun.act)
     
  • (noun.cognition)
    conception, design, excogitation, innovation, invention
    the creation of something in the mind (noun.cognition)
     
  • (noun.cognition)
    excogitation
    thinking something out with care in order to achieve complete understanding of it (noun.cognition)
     
  • (noun.communication)
    formula
    a conventionalized statement expressing some fundamental principle (noun.communication)
     
  • (noun.person)
    excogitator
    a thinker who considers carefully and thoroughly (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    artificer, discoverer, inventor
    someone who is the first to think of or make something (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    contriver, deviser, planner
    a person who makes plans (noun.person)
     
  • (adj.all)
    imaginative, inventive
    (used of persons or artifacts) marked by independence and creativity in thought or action (adj.all)
     
  • make or work out a plan for; devise (verb.creation)
    labor, project, task, undertaking
    any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted (noun.act)
     
  • (noun.cognition)
    design, plan
    an arrangement scheme (noun.cognition)
     
  • (noun.cognition)
    planning, preparation, provision
    the cognitive process of thinking about what you will do in the event of something happening (noun.cognition)
     
  • (noun.cognition)
    plan, program, programme
    a series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished (noun.cognition)
     
  • (noun.cognition)
    project, projection
    a planned undertaking (noun.cognition)
     
  • (noun.cognition)
    aim, design, intent, intention, purpose
    an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions (noun.cognition)
     
  • put or send forth (verb.creation)
    cast, hurl
    a violent throw (noun.act)
     
synonym hypernym hyponym derivation design plan project devise excogitate forge create by mental act create mentally direct send shoot plot concert map map out devising fashioning invention contrivance conceptualisation conceptualization
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