artificial
artificial
adjective
/ˌɑːtɪˈfɪʃl/
1 made or produced to copy something natural; not real
an artificial limb/flower/sweetener/fertilizer
artificial lighting/light
All food served in the restaurant is completely free from any artificial colours and flavours.
I don't like having to do detailed work in artificial light.
The patient was kept alive by the artificial heart for nearly two months.
Synonyms artificial
Collocations
verbs
be
look
seem
adverb
extremely
fairly
very
2 created by people; not happening naturally
A job interview is a very artificial situation.
the artificial barriers of race, class and gender
It would be entirely artificial to try and divorce the two issues.
They use rather artificial examples.
a patently artificial contrivance
3 not what it appears to be
SYNONYM fake
artificial emotion
Word Origin
late Middle English: from Old French artificiel or Latin artificialis, from artificium ‘handicraft’, based on ars, art- ‘art’ + facere ‘make’.