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Artificial

adjective

Contrived by art rather than nature. Synonym: unreal. "Artificial flavoring" , "An artificial diamond" , "Artificial fibers" , "Artificial sweeteners"

Artificially formal. Synonyms: contrived, hokey, stilted. "Contrived coyness" , "A stilted letter of acknowledgment" , "When people try to correct their speech they develop a stilted pronunciation"

Not arising from natural growth or characterized by vital processes.

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"Artificial" Quotes from Famous Books

... do not think them more so than the English. English simplicity often has a very artificial twist; with the French it is just the reverse; art becomes a second-nature, ...

— Elinor Wyllys - Vol. I • Susan Fenimore Cooper

... of Harvard, her twin-sister, each lending lustre to the other like double stars,—what a pity that she should be so disfigured by crude attempts to adorn her and commemorate her past that her most loving children blush for her artificial deformities amidst the wealth of her natural beauties! One hardly knows which to groan over most sadly,—the tearing down of old monuments, the shelling of the Parthenon, the overthrow of the pillared temples of Rome, ...

— Over the Teacups • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

... been invented they are born in social classes which remain very hard realities in spite of our theories. What Christianity aims at accomplishing is to transcend these inequalities, natural and artificial, by raising men to a state of spiritual equality, a state which ensures true and full enjoyment of all the privileges of the child of God. In this state there is open to all the gift of sanctifying grace ...

— Our Lady Saint Mary • J. G. H. Barry

... a shake of the head, and Morewood carried him off to have such inspection of the picture as artificial light could afford. ...

— Father Stafford • Anthony Hope

... cricketing cap, which nodded in time to his hammer, was presented to you. When he paused to speak, and glanced up, he showed a face that the gas jet, with the aid of many secluded years, had tinctured with its own artificial hue, a face puckered through a long frowning intent on old boots. He wore an apron that had ragged gaps in it. He was a frail and dingy little man, and might never have had a mother, but could have been ...

— London River • H. M. Tomlinson

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