contrive
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
make or work out a plan for; devise
They contrived to murder their boss
Types & categories
- create by mental act hypernym
- plot hyponym
- concert hyponym
- map out hyponym
Related & opposite
Sense 2 verb
come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort
excogitate a way to measure the speed of light
Types & categories
- create by mental act hypernym
Related & opposite
- devising derivation
- invention derivation
- devisal derivation
- conceptualization derivation
- invention derivation
- excogitation derivation
- formula derivation
- excogitator derivation
- artificer derivation
- planner derivation
- imaginative derivation
Sense 3 verb
put or send forth
She threw the flashlight beam into the corner
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- hurl derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | task |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | invention |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | design |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | preparation |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | program |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | project |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | intention |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | planner |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | create by mental act |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | plot |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | concert |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | map out |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | devising |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | invention |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | devisal |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | conceptualization |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | invention |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | excogitation |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | formula |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | excogitator |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | artificer |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | planner |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | imaginative |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | create by mental act |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | hurl |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | send |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | shoot |