artificial

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EnglishEdit

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)

1. 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.

2. False, misleading.

   Her manner was somewhat artificial.

3. Unnatural.

Derived termsEdit

Terms derived from artificial

• artificial consciousness
• artificial intelligence
• artificiality

• artificially
• artificialness

• artificial selection
• artificial turf

Related termsEdit

• artifact
• artifice
• artificer

TranslationsEdit

man-made

• Albanian: artificial (sq)
• Arabic: مُتَصَنَّع‏‎ (mutaṣannaʿ)
• Aragonese: artificial
• Armenian: արհեստական (hy) (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), artefatto (it) m
• Japanese: 人工の (ja) (jinkō no)
• Macedonian: вештачки (veštački)
• Mongolian: хиймэл (mn) (hijmel)
• Norman: artificiel
• 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 (hy) (arhestakan)
• Asturian: artificial
• Bulgarian: прикрит (bg) (prikrit)
• Catalan: artificial (ca), fals (ca)
• Dutch: kunstmatig (nl), nagemaakt (nl), artificieel (nl)
• Finnish: teennäinen (fi)
• German: künstlich (de)
• Greek: τεχνητός (el) (technitós), επίπλαστος (el) (epíplastos)
• Italian: artificioso (it), falso (it), artefatto (it) m

• 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 (hy) (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 (fi), luonnoton
• German: unnatürlich (de), affektiert (de)
• 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)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} artefarita
• French: ^{(please verify)} artificiel

• Ido: ^{(please verify)} artificala
• Turkish: ^{(please verify)} yapay

See alsoEdit

• fake

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AragoneseEdit

AdjectiveEdit

artificial (plural artificials)

1. artificial

Derived termsEdit

• intelichencia artificial f

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AsturianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin artificiālis.

AdjectiveEdit

artificial (epicene, plural artificiales)

1. artificial

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CatalanEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin artificiālis.

AdjectiveEdit

artificial (masculine and feminine plural artificials)

1. artificial

Derived termsEdit

• artificialment

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GalicianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin artificiālis.

AdjectiveEdit

artificial m, f (plural artificiais)

1. artificial

Derived termsEdit

• artificialmente

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PortugueseEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin artificiālis.

PronunciationEdit

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• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐɾtifiˈsjaɫ/
• Hyphenation: ar‧ti‧fi‧ci‧al

AdjectiveEdit

artificial m, f (plural artificiais, comparable)

1. artificial

Derived termsEdit

• artificialmente

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SpanishEdit

AdjectiveEdit

artificial (plural artificiales)

1. artificial

Derived termsEdit

• artificialmente
• fuego artificial

Related termsEdit

• artificio
• artificioso