artificial

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PronunciationEdit

enPR: ä(r)təfĭsh'əl, IPA^(key): /ɑː(ɹ)təˈfɪʃəl/
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Rhymes: -ɪʃəl

EtymologyEdit

Via Old French (French: artificiel), from Latin artificialis from artificium ‎(“skill”), from artifex, from ars ‎(“skill”), and -fex, from facere ‎(“to make”).

AdjectiveEdit

artificial ‎(comparative more artificial, superlative most artificial)

Man-made; of artifice.
- 2013 June 1, “A better waterworks”, in The Economist^[1], volume 407, number 8838, page 5 (Technology Quarterly):
  An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine. But they are nothing like as efficient, and can cause bleeding, clotting and infection—not to mention inconvenience for patients, who typically need to be hooked up to one three times a week for hours at a time.
The flowers were artificial, and he thought them rather tacky.‎
False, misleading.
Her manner was somewhat artificial.‎
Unnatural.

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TranslationsEdit

man-made

Albanian: artificial (sq)
Arabic: مُتَصَنَّع ‎(mutaṣannaʿ)
Aragonese: artificial
Armenian: արհեստական ‎(arhestakan)
Asturian: artificial
Bengali: কৃত্রিম ‎(kritrim)
Bulgarian: изкуствен (bg) ‎(izkustven)
Catalan: artificial (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 人造的 ‎(rénzào de)
Czech: umělý (cs)
Dutch: artificieel (nl), kunstmatig (nl)
Esperanto: artefarita
Finnish: keinotekoinen (fi), teko- (in compounds), keino- (in compounds)
French: artificiel (fr)
Galician: artificial
German: künstlich (de)
Greek: τεχνητός (el) ‎(technitós)
Hebrew: מְלָאכוּתִי (he) ‎(m'lakhutí)
Hungarian: mesterséges (hu)

Ido: artificala (io)
Italian: artificiale (it)
Japanese: 人工の (ja) ‎(jinkō no)
Mongolian: хиймэл (mn) ‎(hijmel)
Norman: artificiel
Macedonian: вештачки ‎(veštački)
Polish: sztuczny (pl) m
Portuguese: artificial (pt)
Romanian: artificial (ro)
Russian: иску́сственный (ru) ‎(iskússtvennyj)
Sanskrit: कृत्रिम (sa) ‎(kritrima)
Scottish Gaelic: fuadain
Serbo-Croatian: veštački (sh)
Slovene: umeten
Spanish: artificial (es)
Swedish: konstgjord (sv), artificiell (sv)
Tagalog: gawa-gawa, balat-bunga
Telugu: కృత్రిమమైన (te) ‎(kr̥trimamaina)
Turkish: yapay (tr)
Ukrainian: шту́чний ‎(štúčnyj)
Volapük: mekavik (vo)

false, misleading

Albanian: artificial (sq)
Armenian: արհեստական ‎(arhestakan)
Asturian: artificial
Bulgarian: прикрит (bg) ‎(prikrit)
Catalan: artificial (ca), fals (ca)
Dutch: kunstmatig (nl), nagemaakt (nl), artificieel (nl)
Finnish: teennäinen
German: künstlich (de)
Greek: τεχνητός (el) ‎(technitós), επίπλαστος (el) ‎(epíplastos)
Italian: artificioso (it), falso (it)

Macedonian: вештачки ‎(veštački)
Portuguese: artificial (pt), falso (pt)
Romanian: fals (ro), artificial (ro)
Russian: иску́сственный (ru) ‎(iskússtvennyj), притво́рный (ru) ‎(pritvórnyj)
Scottish Gaelic: breugach, fuadain
Slovene: narejen
Spanish: artificial (es)
Swedish: konstlad (sv)
Turkish: yapay (tr), sahte (tr), yapmacık (tr)

unnatural

Albanian: artificial (sq)
Armenian: արհեստական ‎(arhestakan)
Asturian: artificial
Bengali: কৃত্রিম ‎(kritrim)
Bulgarian: неестествен (bg) ‎(neestestven), принуден (bg) ‎(prinuden)
Catalan: artificial (ca)
Dutch: kunstmatig (nl), artificieel (nl), onnatuurlijk (nl), nagemaakt (nl)
Finnish: teennäinen, luonnoton
German: unnatürlich
Greek: τεχνητός (el) ‎(technitós), αφύσικος (el) ‎(afýsikos)

Italian: innaturale (it)
Japanese: ^{(please verify)} 人為的な ‎(jin'iteki na)
Macedonian: вештачки ‎(veštački), неприроден ‎(nepriroden)
Portuguese: artificial (pt)
Romanian: nenatural (ro), artificial (ro)
Russian: иску́сственный (ru) ‎(iskússtvennyj), ненатура́льный (ru) ‎(nenaturálʹnyj)
Spanish: artificial (es)
Telugu: అసహజమైన ‎(asahajamaina)
Turkish: yapay (tr), yapmacık (tr)

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