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

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:2.3 / 3 votes

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. Monika Bickert:

   GIPEC created an artificial Instagram feed by following only objectionable content and some brand accounts. And while the fact that they were able to create it in the first place shows we still have work to do, this kind of manufactured feed is not a real representation of what most people see on Instagram.

2. Charlie Munger:

   It was a mistake on my part, not to put these artificial windows into Michigan.

3. Timothy Heath:

   They are destabilizing the situation by building these artificial islands in a rapid amount of time and militarizing those facilities … and this is a major artery in which commercial traffic for the United States passes through as well as our military vessels, the U.S. has very strong interests in making sure these seas remain free and open.

4. Sara Gottfried:

   What you want to do in this reset is get off of sugar and get off of the sugar substitutes-- the artificial sweeteners.

5. Jesper Johanson:

   A knowledge industry has been created here of power, gas, renewables, Big Data, artificial intelligence - a combination of the traditional markets and the Silicon Valley tech.