Synonyms for contrived
- adjective
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Adjective
1. Artificial — unnatural, forced; artificial, or unrealistic
artificial, hokey informal US, stilted, unnatural, fictitious, factitious, affected, artificious dated
Definitions
- adj. 1
Unnatural, forced; artificial, or unrealistic.
Example sentences
- artificial You can drink the juice since it's not artificial.
- unnatural This sentence sounds unnatural to me as an American.
- fictitious All the characters in this drama are fictitious.
- stilted She expresses herself in a rather stilted manner.
- designed Tom designed an experiment to test his hypothesis.
- planned Tom asked Mary whether she planned to swim or not.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| contrived | steady | |
| artificial | falling | |
| unnatural | rising | |
| fictitious | steady | |
| stilted | rising | |
| designed | falling |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 5 letters
- hokey2
- 6 letters
- staged1
- 7 letters
- planned1, stilted2
- 8 letters
- designed2, affected3
- 9 letters
- unnatural4, insincere3
- 10 letters
- artificial4, fictitious3, factitious3
- 11 letters
- artificious
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (hokey2 = 2 syllables).