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[ UK /ˌɑːtɪfˈɪʃə‍l/ ]
[ US /ˌɑɹtəˈfɪʃəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. not arising from natural growth or characterized by vital processes
  2. artificially formal
    a stilted letter of acknowledgment
    contrived coyness
    when people try to correct their speech they develop a stilted pronunciation
    that artificial humility that her husband hated
  3. contrived by art rather than nature
    an artificial diamond
    artificial fibers
    artificial flavoring
    artificial sweeteners
    artificial flowers

How To Use artificial In A Sentence

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • The building is dark brick topped by pinky-coloured concrete block walls, white plastic-looking fascia board, black plastic guttering and an artificial slate roof.
  • Qiao Gong Fang Gems is a professional supplier of high-quality jewelry gemstones in Wuzhou which famous known as "the capital of artificial gem in the world".
  • They are accused of hatching a decade-long plot to keep wholesale oil prices artificially high. The Sun
  • Since it is implausibe that readers would need to disbelieve their supension of disbelief -- we all know going in that our suspension of disbelief is artificial -- it must be the second kind of "information" that needs to be combatted. Saying Something
  • The artificial DNA might be applied to a future extra cellular genetic system with information storage and amplifiable abilities. Artificial DNA Created
  • Two of its products containing artificial eggs are on sale in the US. Times, Sunday Times
  • Meanwhile, all sorts of things that at one time or another were considered tests for artificial intelligence — playing chess, doing integrals, doing autonomous control — have been cracked in algorithmic ways. Wolfram Blog : Stephen Wolfram on the Quest for Computable Knowledge
  • In turn, the gallery's window is fitted with giant windscreen wipers to sweep away a continuous downpour of "rain" inverted commas seem necessary to any description of Weber's wonderfully artificial sculptural conceits. This week's new exhibitions
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