artificial
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
bridge
games
natural-sciences
taxonomy
Etymology: From Middle English artificial (“man-made”) via Old French (modern French artificiel), from Latin artificiālis from artificium (“skill”), from artifex, from ars (“skill”), and -fex, from facere (“to make”). Displaced native Old English cræftlīċ.
Inflected forms:
form: more artificial
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most artificial
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Man-made; made by humans; of artifice.
pos: adj
examples: The flowers were artificial, and he thought them rather tacky.
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.
gloss: Insincere; fake, forced, or feigned.
pos: adj
examples: Her manner was somewhat artificial.
gloss: Not natural or normal: imposed arbitrarily or without regard to the specifics or normal circumstances of a person, a situation, etc.
pos: adj
examples: “How quickly have I fallen!” thought Tarzan; but in his heart he did not consider it a fall—rather, he pitied the poor creatures of Paris, penned up like prisoners in their silly clothes, and watched by policemen all their poor lives, that they might do nothing that was not entirely artificial and tiresome.
This results in an artificial conflation of the individual crises experienced by Western European states and leads to imprecise judgements on the impact of Marshall. This confusing conflation is not simply the product of retrospection.
[If] the economic literature of the eighteenth century is examined in terms other than the narrow categories of free trade and protection, the artificial division between the seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries would break down .
In Alberta, for example, policy documents reinforce an artificial distinction between leadership-related activity and management.
The method of suppression is generally either an artificial conflation of public and private, in which the public is represented as private, or an artificial separation of public from private, which distracts attention from the public[…]
gloss: Based on characteristics useful for identification, without regard for the formal differences used in classification.
pos: adj
examples: Artificial keys are devised purely to facilitate determination […]
gloss: Conveying some meaning other than the actual contents of one's hand.
pos: adj
examples: An artificial bid doesn't necessarily show length in the suit being bid, it has an altogether different meaning.
North makes an artificial call of 3♧, the cheapest suit at the 3 level, to show a very poor hand. What North holds in clubs doesn't matter at all.
Synonyms: artificious
factitious
Antonyms: antonym(s) of
Related words: artifact
artifice
artificer
fake
Derived words: artificial abortion
artificial anus
artificial art
artificial bee colony
artificial consciousness
artificial dumbness
artificial element
artificial florist
artificial general intelligence
artificial horizon
artificial ice
artificial idiocy
artificial immune system
artificial incompetence
artificial insemination
artificial inseminator
artificial intelligence
artificialism
artificialist
artificiality
artificialization
artificialize
artificial kidney
artificial language
artificial life
artificially
artificialness
artificial person
artificial respiration
artificial rice
artificial scarcity
artificial script
artificial selection
artificial stupidity
artificial superintelligence
artificial sweetener
artificial tear
artificial tear drop
artificial turf
artificial unintelligence
artilect
bioartificial
inartificial
nonartificial
overartificial
semiartificial
unartificial
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