All artificial synonyms
ar·ti·fi·cial
A a adj artificial
- unreal — not real or actual.
- bogus — If you describe something as bogus, you mean that it is not genuine.
- counterfeit — Counterfeit money, goods, or documents are not genuine, but have been made to look exactly like genuine ones in order to deceive people.
- factitious — not spontaneous or natural; artificial; contrived: factitious laughter; factitious enthusiasm.
- manufactured — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
- mock — to attack or treat with ridicule, contempt, or derision.
- phony — not real or genuine; fake; counterfeit: a phony diamond.
- plastic — Often, plastics. any of a group of synthetic or natural organic materials that may be shaped when soft and then hardened, including many types of resins, resinoids, polymers, cellulose derivatives, casein materials, and proteins: used in place of other materials, as glass, wood, and metals, in construction and decoration, for making many articles, as coatings, and, drawn into filaments, for weaving. They are often known by trademark names, as Bakelite, Vinylite, or Lucite.
- sham — something that is not what it purports to be; a spurious imitation; fraud or hoax.
- simulated — to create a simulation, likeness, or model of (a situation, system, or the like): to simulate crisis conditions.
- specious — apparently good or right though lacking real merit; superficially pleasing or plausible: specious arguments.
- spurious — not genuine, authentic, or true; not from the claimed, pretended, or proper source; counterfeit.
- substitute — a person or thing acting or serving in place of another.
- synthetic — of, pertaining to, proceeding by, or involving synthesis (opposed to analytic).
- unnatural — contrary to the laws or course of nature.
- false — not true or correct; erroneous: a false statement.
- fabricated — to make by art or skill and labor; construct: The finest craftspeople fabricated this clock.
- faked — to lay (a rope) in a coil or series of long loops so as to allow to run freely without fouling or kinking (often followed by down).
- falsie — either of a pair of shaped pads, made of rubber, fabric, or the like, for wearing inside a brassiere to give the breasts a larger or more shapely appearance.
- hyped up — intensively or excessively stimulated or exaggerated: an economy hyped-up by arms spending.
- assumed — false; fictitious
- contrived — If you say that something someone says or does is contrived, you think it is false and deliberate, rather than natural and not planned.
- feigned — pretended; sham; counterfeit: feigned enthusiasm.
- forced — strained, unnatural, or affected: a forced smile.
- hollow — having a space or cavity inside; not solid; empty: a hollow sphere.
- insincere — not sincere; not honest in the expression of actual feeling; hypocritical.
- labored — of or relating to workers, their associations, or working conditions: labor reforms.
- mannered — having manners as specified (usually used in combination): ill-mannered people.
- meretricious — alluring by a show of flashy or vulgar attractions; tawdry.
- theatrical — of or relating to the theater or dramatic presentations: theatrical performances.
- put-on — an act or instance of putting someone on.
adjective artificial
- fake — to lay (a rope) in a coil or series of long loops so as to allow to run freely without fouling or kinking (often followed by down).
- reproduction — the act or process of reproducing.
- imitation — a result or product of imitating.
- man-made — produced, formed, or made by humans.
- pretend — to cause or attempt to cause (what is not so) to seem so: to pretend illness; to pretend that nothing is wrong.
- laboured — productive activity, especially for the sake of economic gain.
noun artificial
- kitsch — something of tawdry design, appearance, or content created to appeal to popular or undiscriminating taste.