contrive

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: B2 — Upper-Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

verb make or work out a plan for; devise
verb come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort
verb put or send forth

From Middle English contreve (“to invent”), from Old French controver (Modern French controuver), from trover (“to find”) (French trouver).

Stay--we may contrive this matter. — A Stable for Nightmares; or, Weird Tales, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
But I contrive very little. — The Passionate Friends, H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Contrived in the Nautilus’s side, a second door then opened. — Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World, Jules Verne

plan, project, design

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