artificial

Speech parts

1. artificial - Adjective

2. artificial - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Made or contrived by art; produced or modified by human skill and labor, in opposition to natural; as, artificial heat or light, gems, salts, minerals, fountains, flowers.

Feigned; fictitious; assumed; affected; not genuine.

Artful; cunning; crafty.

Cultivated; not indigenous; not of spontaneous growth; as, artificial grasses.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

unreal contrived affected false manufactured synthetic fake fabricated spurious unnatural counterfeit pretended faux factitious man-made
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Antonyms

natural botanical amen original real true
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Related terms

artificer artifice artifact

Phrases with the word

artificial reproduction artificial source of radiation artificial fiber artificial radiation artificial environment artificial silk

Examples

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God. Alan Perlis

All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values. Marshall McLuhan

I don't like LA. The majority just seem to be so artificial. Look at how they worship everything they think is fashionable. Isn't it sick? Billie Joe Armstrong

California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that. Saul Bellow

The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions. Georges Rouault

The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble. Henry Miller

Close letter words and terms

artificed artificer artificership artificial abortion artificial abortions artificial accent