Contrives Synonyms and Antonyms

Come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. invents
  2. makes
  3. formulates
  4. devises
  5. forges
  6. hatches
  7. improvises
  8. fabricates
  9. concocts
Antonyms:
  1. disorganizes

Contrives Sentence Examples

  • The nominal title, even when most strictly observed, is rarely more than a starting-point; and, though the brevity of these first essays for the most part prevents the author from journeying very far, he contrives to get to the utmost range of his tether.

  • Elslack Moor somehow contrives to look much bigger than it actually is.

  • From this general perspective, ABC for a Marxist, he contrives however to make a recipe of temporizing passivity and national nihilism.

  • Bach contrives to give this anti-climax a definite artistic value; all the more from the fact that his Crucifixus and Resurrexit, and the contrast between them, are among the most sublime and directly impressive things in all music. To the end of his Resurrexit chorus he appends an orchestral ritornello, summing up the material of the chorus in the most formal possible way, and thereby utterly destroying all sense of finality as a member of a large group, while at the same time not in the least impairing the force and contrast of the whole - that contrast having ineffaceably asserted itself at the moment when it occurred.

  • Chance forms the characters of the rulers of France, who submit to him; chance forms the character of Paul I of Russia who recognizes his government; chance contrives a plot against him which not only fails to harm him but confirms his power.