Methodized and Contrived
(imp.&p.p.) of Methodize.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
verb
- Make or work out a plan for; devise.
- usage: "They contrived to murder their boss"; "design a new sales strategy"; "plan an attack"
- Come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort.
- usage: "excogitate a way to measure the speed of light"
- Put or send forth.
- usage: "She threw the flashlight beam into the corner"; "The setting sun threw long shadows"; "cast a spell"; "cast a warm light"
adjective
- Showing effects of planning or manipulation.
- usage: "a novel with a contrived ending"
- Artificially formal.
- usage: "that artificial humility that her husband hated"; "contrived coyness"; "a stilted letter of acknowledgment"; "when people try to correct their speech they develop a stilted pronunciation"
- synonyms: artificial, hokey, stilted
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
(imp.&p.p.) of Contrive.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary