A person who devises, invents, or creates something, especially through clever thinking or scheming.
From the verb contrive plus the agent suffix -er. The word entered English in the 16th century, referring to someone who invents or plots.
Contravers were crucial during the Renaissance—people like Leonardo da Vinci were master contrvers who dreamed up flying machines centuries before they could actually be built.
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