Usually means: Devising plans with skill, creativity.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. contriving: Merriam-Webster
  2. contriving: Collins English Dictionary
  3. contriving: Vocabulary.com
  4. Contriving, contriving: Wordnik
  5. contriving: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. contriving: Wiktionary
  7. Contriving, contriving: Dictionary.com
  8. contriving: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Contriving: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Contriving: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. contriving: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. contriving: FreeDictionary.org
  13. contriving: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. contriving: Legal dictionary

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▸ noun:  The act of one who contrives.

Similar:
invent, formulate, devise, design, project, excogitate, plan, cast, throw, forge, more...

Opposite:
uncontrived, spontaneous, natural, genuine

Adjectives:
own, much, human, little, rational, conscious, busy, secret, ingenious, deliberate, constant



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Similar:
invent, formulate, devise, design, project, excogitate, plan, cast, throw, forge, more...

Opposite:
uncontrived, spontaneous, natural, genuine

Adjectives:
own, much, human, little, rational, conscious, busy, secret, ingenious, deliberate, constant



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