To invent by an exercise of ingenuity; to devise / To invent, to make devices; to form designs especially by improvisation. / To project, cast, or set forth, as in a projection of light.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of contrive

Created in a deliberate, rather than natural or spontaneous, way. / Unnatural, forced; artificial, or unrealistic.

simple past tense and past participle of contrive

A person who contrives.

plural of contriver

(obsolete) contrivance; invention; arrangement or plan

plural of contrivement

Capable of being contrived, invented, or devised.

present participle of contrive