Definition of Artificial

Artificial Made or contrived by art; produced or modified by human skill and labor, in opposition to natural; as, artificial heat or light, gems, salts, minerals, fountains, flowers. Feigned; fictitious; assumed; affected; not genuine. Artful; cunning; crafty. Cultivated; not indigenous; not of spontaneous growth; as, artificial grasses. Related Definitions: Affected, And, Art, Artful, Artificial, As, Assumed, By, Contrived, Crafty, Cultivated, Cunning, Feigned, Fictitious, Gems, Genuine, Growth, Heat, Human, In, Indigenous, Labor, Light, Made, Modified, Natural, Not, Of, Opposition, Or, Produced, Skill, Spontaneous, To

Artificial Quotations In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue. Thomas Jefferson Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination. George Bernard Shaw Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance. Margaret Mead Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real. Thomas Merton The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. William Faulkner The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble. Henry Miller I don't like LA. The majority just seem to be so artificial. Look at how they worship everything they think is fashionable. Isn't it sick? Billie Joe Armstrong Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free. Emma Goldman All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values. Marshall McLuhan If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences. H. P. Lovecraft

Artificial Translations artificial in Afrikaans is kunstig, onnatuurlik artificial in Danish is kunstig artificial in Dutch is gekunsteld, gewrongen, gemaakt artificial in French is artificiel artificial in Italian is artefatto artificial in Latin is facticius artificial in Norwegian is kunstig artificial in Spanish is artificial artificial in Swedish is artificiell, konstgjord