artificial vs natural

Definitions

adjective

1. not arising from natural growth or characterized by vital processes
2. artificially formal
3. contrived by art rather than nature

Examples

By contrast, when Procter & Gamble, the makers of Olestra, asked the FDA for permission to add its artificial fat substitute to potato chips, the controversial product was evaluated under food-additive laws.

The only element of the production that fails to satisfy is the heavily miked, synthesizer-dominated orchestra, which sounds artificial and dead.

And that desire to foster a copacetic synthesis between carbon-based life forms and artificial devices can be heard in every blip and digitized beat played.

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Definitions

adjective

1. functioning or occurring in a normal way; lacking abnormalities or deficiencies
2. unthinking; prompted by (or as if by) instinct
3. free from artificiality
4. being talented through inherited qualities
5. existing in or produced by nature; not artificial or imitation

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noun

1. (craps) a first roll of 7 or 11 that immediately wins the stake
2. someone regarded as certain to succeed
3. a notation cancelling a previous sharp or flat

Examples

Frogs and newts have already been attracted to three new natural spring ponds at Abbey Meads School.

Lovecraft dealt not with the supernatural but with the "supernormal," as Joshi puts it -- the unrealized side of material reality.

I play the piano, so it is natural for me to think ‘harmonically’ a lot of the time (one can hear harmonies instantly on a piano; also mainstream jazz is extremely harmony driven).

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