contrived
adj/kənˈtɹaɪvd/
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Created in a deliberate, rather than natural or spontaneous, way.
- contrived joke
- contrived answer
3 more examples
- contrived speech
- contrived solution
- Sign languages are natural languages, emerging spontaneously when a group of deaf people meets and interacts on a regular basis over a period of time. They differ from spoken languages in terms of the physical modality in which they are transmitted. However, like spoken languages, they arise within a community, and are not contrived systems of communication.2013, Irit Meir, Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics, volume 3 (overall work in English), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 561:
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Unnatural, forced; artificial, or unrealistic.
- Synonyms
- staged, insincere, factitious, hokey
- Antonyms
- spontaneous
- Derived terms
- contrivedly, contrivedness, uncontrived