| contrived | (adjective) artificially formal | Synonyms: artificial, hokey, stilted |
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| (adjective) showing effects of planning or manipulation | - |
| deprived | (adjective) marked by deprivation especially of the necessities of life or healthful environmental influences | Synonyms: disadvantaged |
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| derived | (adjective) formed or developed from something else; not original | - |
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| driven | (adjective) strongly motivated to succeed | Synonyms: compulsive, determined |
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| (adjective) compelled forcibly by an outside agency | Synonyms: goaded |
| (adjective) urged or forced to action through moral pressure | Synonyms: impelled |
| riveting | (adjective) capable of arousing and holding the attention | Synonyms: absorbing, engrossing, fascinating, gripping |
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| scrivened | (adjective) copied in handwriting | - |
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| shriveled | (adjective) reduced in efficacy or vitality or intensity | Synonyms: shrivelled, shrunken |
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| (adjective) (used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture | Synonyms: dried-up, sear, sere, shrivelled, withered |
| (adjective) lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness | Synonyms: shrivelled, shrunken, withered, wizen, wizened |
| shrivelled | (adjective) reduced in efficacy or vitality or intensity | Synonyms: shriveled, shrunken |
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| (adjective) (used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture | Synonyms: dried-up, sear, sere, shriveled, withered |
| (adjective) lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness | Synonyms: shriveled, shrunken, withered, wizen, wizened |
| uncontrived | (adjective) not by design or artifice; unforced and impromptu | Synonyms: unstudied |
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| underived | (adjective) not derived; primary or simple | - |
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