Synonyms for artificial
ˌɑr təˈfɪʃ əlar·ti·fi·cial

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.5 / 6 votes

1. artificial

   Synonyms:
   acquired, alien, alien, assumed, foreign, unnatural

   Antonyms:
   indigenous, innate, natal, native, natural, original

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.5 / 2 votes

1. artificial

   Synonyms:
   invented, fabricated, fictitious, constructed, manufactured, pretended, simulated, false, assumed, concocted, contrived, deceptive, artful, affected, unnatural, constrained

   Antonyms:
   natural, inartificial, genuine, spontaneous, transparent, artless, unaffected

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1. artificial, unrealadjective

   contrived by art rather than nature

   "artificial flowers"; "artificial flavoring"; "an artificial diamond"; "artificial fibers"; "artificial sweeteners"

   Synonyms:
   contrived, insubstantial, unreal, stilted, hokey, unsubstantial

   Antonyms:
   unbleached, natural, organic, unaffected, undyed, uncolored

2. artificial, contrived, hokey, stiltedadjective

   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"

   Synonyms:
   drippy, schmaltzy, sentimental, soppy, maudlin, mushy, stilted, soupy, mawkish, kitschy, slushy, contrived, unreal, hokey, bathetic, schmalzy

   Antonyms:
   undyed, natural, organic, unaffected, uncolored, unbleached

3. artificialadjective

   not arising from natural growth or characterized by vital processes

   Synonyms:
   contrived, unreal, stilted, hokey

   Antonyms:
   organic, unaffected, uncolored, undyed, natural, unbleached

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1. prosthetic

   an artificial body part

   daniel donated a prosthetic leg to his brother believing he needed it more than him.

   Submitted by rinat on October 6, 2019  

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:3.5 / 2 votes

1. artificialadjective

   Synonyms:
   factitious, made by art, not natural

2. artificialadjective

   Synonyms:
   fictitious, feigned, counterfeited, sham, spurious

3. artificialadjective

   Synonyms:
   assumed, affected, forced, strained

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1. artificialadjective

   Synonyms:
   factitious, feigned, affected, assumed, fictitious, counterfeit, spurious

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1. List of paraphrases for "artificial":

   man-made, manmade, contrived, human-made, synthetic, unnatural, engineered, anthropogenic, artificially

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1. List of known nicknames for "Artificial":

   Aural Distortion, Gustavo Sacchetti

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1. Greg Poling:

   So if Beijing objects by saying to the U.S. you're in our territorial sea, then the U.S. can respond by saying there's no such thing as a territorial sea for an artificial island.

2. Christine Lagarde:

   A significant disruption to the financial landscape is likely to come from the big tech firms, who will use their enormous customer bases and deep pockets to offer financial products based on big data and artificial intelligence.

3. Worldwide Consumer Jeff Wilke:

   I do worry sometimes when people equate [ artificial intelligence ] and robotics with job loss, if you look at these kinds of technological innovations over the years it tends to be the case they don't eliminate jobs, they tend to change jobs and change work. This is true for us.

4. Sara Gottfried:

   The important thing is to realize we all get exposed to endocrine disrupters, [which are] these artificial chemicals that are in plastics. We get exposed to them in a lot of different ways-- receipts that you get at your local store often are coded with bisphenol A (BPA), which acts on your testosterone levels. So in women it tends to make you raise your testosterone, and in men it tends to lower your testosterone. So, this acts as an endocrine disrupter, and we want to stop that war that’s happening in the body and get rid of those toxins.

5. Ralph Waldo Emerson:

   Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.