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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.

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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

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

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

I was never very good at exams, having a poor memory and finding the examination process rather artificial, and there never seemed to be enough time to follow up things that really interested me.
Paul Nurse

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

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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