Word Meanings - CONTRIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To form by an exercise of ingenuity; to devise; to invent; to design; to plan. What more likely to contrive this admirable frame of the universe than infinite wisdom. Tillotson. neither do thou imagine that I shall contrive aught against his life.

Additional info about word: CONTRIVE

To form by an exercise of ingenuity; to devise; to invent; to design; to plan. What more likely to contrive this admirable frame of the universe than infinite wisdom. Tillotson. neither do thou imagine that I shall contrive aught against his life. Hawthorne. Syn. -- To invent; discover; plan; design; project; plot; concert; hatch.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CONTRIVE)

• Devise
• Contrive
• plan
• maneuvre
• concert
• manage
• Form
• Shape
• mould
• fashion
• constitute
• arrange
• frame
• construct
• contrive
• conceive
• make
• produce
• create
• devise
• Hatch
• Prepare
• concoct
• scheme
• brew
• plot
• incubate
• Invent
• Discover
• imagine
• elaborate
• design
• fabricate
• originate
• find out
• forge
• feign
• Manage
• Handle
• manipulate
• control
• conduct
• administer
• regulate
• train
• husband
• direct
• wield

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of CONTRIVE)

• Neglect
• abandon
• license
• berate
• free
• mismanage
• misconduct
• Pervert
• distort
• misadapt
• misdelineate
• derange
• discompose
• misconstrue
• misproduce
• caricature

Related words: (words related to CONTRIVE)

• INVENTIVE
  Able and apt to invent; quick at contrivance; ready at expedients; as, an inventive head or genius. Dryden. -- In*vent"ive*ly, adv. -- In*vent"ive*ness, n.
• DIRECT CURRENT
  A current flowing in one direction only; -- distinguished from alternating current. When steady and not pulsating a direct current is often called a continuous current. A direct induced current, or momentary current of the same direction as the
• DERANGER
  One who deranges.
• DESIGN
  drawing, dessein a plan or scheme; all, ultimately, from L. designare to designate; de- + signare to mark, mark out, signum mark, sign. See 1. To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace
• DERANGEMENT
  The act of deranging or putting out of order, or the state of being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion; especially, mental disorder; insanity. Syn. -- Disorder; confusion; embarrassment; irregularity; disturbance; insanity;
• DIRECTER
  One who directs; a director. Directer plane , the plane to which all right-lined elements in a warped surface are parallel.
• HATCHURE
  See HACHURE
• DESIGNATE
  Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
• MISMANAGER
  One who manages ill.
• SHAPE
  is from the strong verb, AS. scieppan, scyppan, sceppan, p. p. 1. To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to. I was shapen in iniquity. Ps. li. 5. Grace shaped her limbs, and
• CONSTRUCT
  together, to construct; con- + struere to pile up, set in order. See 1. To put together the constituent parts of in their proper place and order; to build; to form; to make; as, to construct an edlifice. 2. To devise; to invent; to set in order;
• CONTROLLABLENESS
  Capability of being controlled.
• CONCOCTER
  One who concocts.
• DERANGED
  Disordered; especially, disordered in mind; crazy; insane. The story of a poor deranged parish lad. Lamb.
• FASHION-MONGERING
  Behaving like a fashion-monger. Shak.
• FASHIONED
  Having a certain style or fashion; as old-fashioned; new- fashioned.
• FASHION-MONGER
  One who studies the fashions; a fop; a dandy. Marston.
• INVENTRESS
  A woman who invents. Dryden.
• PRODUCEMENT
  Production.
• FORGETTINGLY
  By forgetting.
• UNCREATED
  1. Deprived of existence; annihilated. Beau. & Fl. 2. Not yet created; as, misery uncreated. Milton. 3. Not existing by creation; self-existent; eternal; as, God is an uncreated being. Locke.
• CHANDLER
  of candles, LL. candelarius chandler, fr. L. candela candle. See 1. A maker or seller of candles. The chandler's basket, on his shoulder borne, With tallow spots thy coat. Gay. 2. A dealer in other commodities, which are indicated by
• SAFE-CONDUCT
  That which gives a safe, passage; either a convoy or guard to protect a person in an enemy's country or a foreign country, or a writing, pass, or warrant of security, given to a person to enable him to travel with safety. Shak.
• UNFRAME
  To take apart, or destroy the frame of. Dryden.
• MOLDINESS; MOULDINESS
  The state of being moldy.
• STRAINABLE
  1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed.
• MOLDER; MOULDER
  One who, or that which, molds or forms into shape; specifically , one skilled in the art of making molds for castings.
• SPINDLE-SHAPED
  Thickest in the middle, and tapering to both ends; fusiform; -- applied chiefly to roots. (more info) 1. Having the shape of a spindle.
• HOOD MOLDING; HOOD MOULDING
  A projecting molding over the head of an arch, forming the outermost member of the archivolt; -- called also hood mold.
• DIAMOND-SHAPED
  Shaped like a diamond or rhombus.
• STRAP-SHAPED
  Shaped like a strap; ligulate; as, a strap-shaped corolla.
• PROCREATE
  To generate and produce; to beget; to engender.