artificial

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artificial

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

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

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.

SynonymsEdit

artificious

AntonymsEdit

(unnatural): natural

Derived termsEdit

Terms derived from artificial

Related termsEdit

TranslationsEdit

man-made

Albanian: artificial (sq)
Arabic: مُتَصَنَّع‎‎ (mutaṣannaʿ)
Aragonese: artificial
Armenian: արհեստական (hy) (arhestakan)
Asturian: artificial
Belarusian: шту́чны (štúčny)
Bengali: কৃত্রিম (kritrim)
Bulgarian: изку́ствен (bg) (izkústven)
Catalan: artificial (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 人造的 (zh) (rénzào de)
Czech: umělý (cs)
Danish: kunstig (da), artificiel
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)
Hindi: कृत्रिम (hi) (kŕtrim)
Hungarian: mesterséges (hu)
Ido: artificala (io)
Italian: artificiale (it), artefatto (it) m
Japanese: 人工の (ja) (じんこうの, jinkō no)
Korean: 인공의 (ko) (in-gong-ui)
Lithuanian: dirbtinis (lt)

Macedonian: вештачки (veštački)
Mongolian: хиймэл (mn) (hijmel)
Norman: artificiel
Norwegian:
Bokmål: kunstig (no)
Old English: cræftlīċ
Persian: ساختگی‎‎ (fa) (sâxtagi)
Polish: sztuczny (pl) m
Portuguese: artificial (pt)
Romanian: artificial (ro)
Russian: иску́сственный (ru) (iskússtvennyj)
Sanskrit: कृत्रिम (sa) (kṛtrima)
Scottish Gaelic: fuadain
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: вештачки

Roman: veštački (sh)
Slovak: umelý
Slovene: umeten
Spanish: artificial (es)
Swedish: konstgjord (sv), artificiell (sv)
Tagalog: gawa-gawa, balat-bunga
Telugu: కృత్రిమమైన (te) (kr̥trimamaina)
Thai: เทียม (th) (tiiam)
Turkish: yapay (tr)
Ukrainian: шту́чний (štúčnyj)
Vietnamese: nhân tạo (vi)
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)
Galician: falso (gl) m
German: künstlich (de)
Greek: τεχνητός (el) (technitós), επίπλαστος (el) (epíplastos)
Italian: artificioso (it), falso (it), artefatto (it) m

Macedonian: вештачки (veštački)
Old English: cræftlīċ
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)
Thai: เทียม (th) (tiiam)
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)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 人為 (zh), 人为 (zh) (rénwéi)
Dutch: kunstmatig (nl), artificieel (nl), onnatuurlijk (nl), nagemaakt (nl)
Finnish: teennäinen (fi), luonnoton (fi)
Galician: artificial m, f
German: unnatürlich (de), affektiert (de)

Greek: τεχνητός (el) (technitós), αφύσικος (el) (afýsikos)
Italian: innaturale (it)
Japanese: 人為的な (ja) (じんいてきな, jin'iteki na)
Korean: 인위적 (ko) (inwijeok)
Macedonian: вештачки (veštački), неприроден (nepriroden)
Portuguese: artificial (pt)
Romanian: nenatural (ro), artificial (ro)
Russian: иску́сственный (ru) (iskússtvennyj), ненатура́льный (ru) (nenaturálʹnyj), неесте́ственный (ru) (nejestéstvennyj)
Spanish: artificial (es)
Telugu: అసహజమైన (asahajamaina)
Thai: เทียม (th) (tiiam)
Turkish: yapay (tr), yapmacık (tr)

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