Artificial
[ɑːtɪ'fɪʃ(ə)l] or [,ɑrtɪ'fɪʃl]
Definition
(adj.) artificially formal; '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' .
(adj.) contrived by art rather than nature; 'artificial flowers'; 'artificial flavoring'; 'an artificial diamond'; 'artificial fibers'; 'artificial sweeteners' .
(adj.) not arising from natural growth or characterized by vital processes .
Checker: Tina--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) 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.
(a.) Feigned; fictitious; assumed; affected; not genuine.
(a.) Artful; cunning; crafty.
(a.) Cultivated; not indigenous; not of spontaneous growth; as, artificial grasses.
Editor: Nell
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Factitious, made by art, not natural.[2]. Fictitious, feigned, counterfeited, sham, spurious.[3]. Assumed, affected, forced, strained.
Checker: Mara
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Invented, fabricated, fictitious, constructed, manufactured, pretended,simulated, false, assumed, concocted, contrived, deceptive, artful, affected,unnatural, constrained
ANT:Natural, inartificial, genuine, spontaneous, transparent, artless, unaffected,[SeeARTFUL]
Typist: Mag
Examples
- Artificial purely. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Among the important and interesting achievements of chemistry in the Nineteenth Century is the _artificial production of organic compounds_. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The preservation of food is also dependent on ammonia, which produces the refrigerating effect in the numerous cold storage houses and artificial ice plants in this country. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- If she rose a trimmed, artificial mound, without inequality, what vantage would she offer the foot? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- De Chardonnet’s Process of Making Artificial Silk. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The same truth may be proved still more evidently by that reasoning, which proved justice in general to be an artificial virtue. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- About 300 patents have been granted for artificial legs and arms. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Artificial floating islands have been formed by placing lake mud on rafts of wicker-work covered with reeds. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- They were high from the ground, and they burnt with the steady dulness of artificial light in air that is seldom renewed. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The sense of walls, dry, thin, flimsy-seeming walls, and a flimsy flooring, pale with its artificial black edges, was neutralising to the mind. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- You know that these have to be manufactured by artificial light, as exposure to sunlight always results in an explosion. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Perhaps it will appear afterwards, that our sense of some virtues is artificial, and that of others natural. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- We know how human nature may be degraded; we do not know how by artificial means any improvement in the breed can be effected. Plato. The Republic.
- The hides are all hung in a dry loft, where artificial heat of different temperatures is used until they are thoroughly dry. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- At Dewlish in Dorset, an artificial trench has been found which is supposed to have been a Pal?olithic trap for elephants. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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