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What is the adjective for contrivitions?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb contrive which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

contrived
  1. Created in a deliberate, rather than natural or spontaneous, way.
  2. Unnatural, forced; artificial, or unrealistic.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. false, fake, artificial, feigned, affected, sham, bogus, pretended, spurious, forced, unnatural, mock, pseudo, phoney, simulated, strained, assumed, phony, mechanical, plastic, factitious, laboured, overdone, studied, labored, manufactured, elaborate, planned, unspontaneous, fixed, hokey, manipulated, recherche, staged, voulu, tortured, put-on, far-fetched, overly planned, insincere, pretend, faked, stilted, stiff, mannered, fabricated, counterfeit, awkward, hollow, invented … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “Here, several contrived situations are grafted into the plot to generate artificial tension.”
contrivable
  1. Capable of being contrived, invented, or devised.
  2. Examples:
      3. “Before them lay row upon row of tents, pavilions, shelters, barracks and all other contrivable form of shelter.”
      “This article introduced a simple contrivable concept and exhibited some experimental results of the PCL ESMP dual-functional composite system.”
contriving
  1. present participle of contrive
  2. Synonyms:
      3. getting, arranging, finding a way, engineering a way, managing, succeeding in, organizing, working it, fixing it, compassing, coordinating, designing, maneuvering, manoeuvring, organising, succeeding, wangling, devising, planning, concocting, framing, plotting, scheming, creating, inventing, constructing, cooking up, formulating, hatching, machinating, thinking up, developing, fabricating, conceiving, making up, forming, dreaming up, engineering, putting together, masterminding, forging, producing, originating, composing, preparing, coming up with, making, setting up, manufacturing, finagling … more
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