English-Thai Dictionary

contrived

ADJ ที่ วางแผน ไว้  ti-wang-pan-wai

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CONTRIVED

pp. Invented; planned; devised.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

contrived

con trived |kənˈtrīvd kənˈtraɪvd | ▶adjective deliberately created rather than arising naturally or spontaneously. • created or arranged in a way that seems artificial and unrealistic: the ending of the novel is too pat and contrived.

 

Oxford Dictionary

contrived

con |trived |kənˈtrʌɪvd | ▶adjective deliberately created rather than arising naturally or spontaneously. • created or arranged in a way that seems artificial and unrealistic: the ending of the novel is too pat and contrived.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

contrived

contrived adjective the story's contrived ending is a big letdown: forced, strained, studied, artificial, affected, put-on, phony, pretended, false, feigned, fake, manufactured, unnatural; labored, overdone, elaborate. ANTONYMS natural.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

contrived

contrived adjective David replied with contrived joviality | the ending of the novel is too contrived to be convincing: forced, strained, studied, artificial, affected, put-on, pretended, false, feigned, manufactured, unnatural, non-spontaneous; laboured, overdone, elaborate; far-fetched; N. Amer. informal hokey; rare voulu. ANTONYMS natural, spontaneous.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

contrived

con tr í ved 形容詞 ｟非難して ｠不自然な, わざとらしい, 作り物の ; 〈映画 劇の筋などが 〉あり得ない, 説得力のない .