Definition of Artificial

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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.

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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

Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.
Thomas Merton

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

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.
George Bernard Shaw

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

Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls.
Gertrude Stein

Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.
Susan Sontag

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

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

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

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