different between contrived vs contriver

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n?t?a?vd/

Verb

contrived

1. simple past tense and past participle of contrive

Adjective

contrived (comparative more contrived, superlative most contrived)

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

Synonyms

• staged

Antonyms

• spontaneous

Translations

English

Etymology

contrive +? -er

Noun

contriver (plural contrivers)

1. A person who contrives.

   Synonyms: creator, inventer, planner, plotter, schemer

   • c. 1599, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act I, Scene 1,^[1]

     I’ll tell thee, Charles, it is the stubbornest young fellow of France; full of ambition, an envious emulator of every man’s good parts, a secret and villainous contriver against me his natural brother.

   • 1726, Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels, London: Benjamin Motte, Volume 1, Part 2, Chapter 7, p. 274,^[2]

     […] those desctructive Machines, whereof he said, some evil Genius, Enemy to Mankind, must have been the first Contriver.

   • 1818, Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, Chapter 14, in Northanger Abbey: and Persuasion, London: John Murray, Volume 2, p. 278,^[3]

     A heroine returning, at the close of her career, to her native village, in all the triumph of recovered reputation, and all the dignity of a countess […] is an event on which the pen of the contriver may well delight to dwell;

   • 1975, Robertson Davies, World of Wonders, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2015, Part 2, Chapter 3,^[4]

     They had toured the world together with their Soirée of Illusions, combining his art as a public performer with her skill as a technician, a contriver of magical apparatus, and her artistic taste, which was far beyond his own.