different between contrived vs prepense

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

Back-formation from prepensed, probably from Anglo-Norman prepenser.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p???p?ns/

Adjective

prepense

1. Devised, contrived, or planned beforehand; preconceived, premeditated.

See also

• malice prepense

Verb

prepense (third-person singular simple present prepenses, present participle prepensing, simple past and past participle prepensed)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To weigh or consider beforehand; to intend.
   • 1531, Thomas Elyot, The Boke named the Governour

     All these thinges prepensed and gathered together seriously

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.xi:

     submit you to high prouidence, / And euer in your noble hart prepense, / That all the sorrow in the world is lesse, / Then vertues might [...].

2. (obsolete) To deliberate beforehand.