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

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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. Froyo Tam:

   We still see an uneasy relationship with technology, especially advances in artificial intelligence and technologies that change our day-to-day routines. That is the kind of future we imagined decades ago. And now that it’s here, it causes the same unease that earlier technologies did then.

2. James Scott:

   Cyber hygiene, patching vulnerabilities, security by design, threat hunting and machine learning based artificial intelligence are mandatory prerequisites for cyber defense against the next generation threat landscape.

3. Elon Musk:

   I think we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. If I had to guess at what our biggest existential threat is, it’s probably that … we are summoning the demon.

4. Jeev Trika:

   Before Google refined their algorithm, getting on the first page of search results often could be achieved with tactics like keyword stuffing and artificial linking schemes, but those days are gone, because of changes to Google’s algorithms, Internet entrepreneurs and Web publishers like myself now go the extra mile to provide websites and articles that are relevant, useful, and written to journalistic standards, and that has made the virtual world a better place.

5. Lawrence Jones:

   Bit by bit we'd get the tree up and decorated, it was artificial, but the sense of togetherness wasn't.