artificial

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EnglishEdit

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/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɪʃəl

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.

SynonymsEdit

• artificious

AntonymsEdit

• (unnatural): natural

Derived termsEdit

Terms derived from artificial

• artificial consciousness
• artificial intelligence
• artificial selection

• artificial turf
• artificiality

• artificially
• artificialness

Related termsEdit

• artifact
• artifice
• artificer

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)

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 (fr)
• Ido: ^{(please verify)} artificala (io)

• Latin: ^{(please verify)} artificialis, ^{(please verify)} artificiosus
• Turkish: ^{(please verify)} yapay (tr)

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.

PronunciationEdit

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /əɾ.ti.fi.siˈal/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ər.ti.fi.siˈal/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /aɾ.ti.fi.siˈal/

AdjectiveEdit

artificial (masculine and feminine plural artificials)

1. artificial

   Antonym: natural

Derived termsEdit

• artificialment
• selecció artificial

Further readingEdit

• “artificial” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

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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

• Audio (BR)

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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