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Artificial (adjective)
Man-made; of artifice.
“The flowers were artificial, and he thought them rather tacky.”
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Artificial (adjective)
False, misleading.
“Her manner was somewhat artificial.”
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Artificial (adjective)
Unnatural.
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Synthetic (adjective)
of, or relating to synthesis
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Synthetic (adjective)
produced by synthesis instead of being isolated from a natural source (but may be identical to a product so obtained)
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Synthetic (adjective)
artificial, not genuine
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Synthetic (adjective)
pertaining to the joining of bound morphemes in a word (compare analytic)
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Synthetic (adjective)
of a language, having a grammar principally dependent on the use of bound morphemes to indicate syntactic relationships (compare analytic)
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Synthetic (noun)
a synthetic compound
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Artificial (adjective)
made or produced by human beings rather than occurring naturally, especially as a copy of something natural
“an artificial limb”
“artificial flowers”
“her skin glowed in the artificial light”
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Artificial (adjective)
(of a situation or concept) not existing naturally; contrived or false
“the artificial division of people into age groups”
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Artificial (adjective)
(of a person or their behaviour) insincere or affected
“she gave an artificial smile”
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Artificial (adjective)
(of a bid) conventional as opposed to natural
“the Italian team began with an artificial club”
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Synthetic (adjective)
(of a substance) made by chemical synthesis, especially to imitate a natural product
“synthetic rubber”
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Synthetic (adjective)
(of an emotion or action) not genuine; insincere
“their tears are a bit synthetic”
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Synthetic (adjective)
(of a proposition) having truth or falsity determinable by recourse to experience.
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Synthetic (adjective)
(of a language) characterized by the use of inflections rather than word order to express grammatical structure.
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Synthetic (noun)
a synthetic material or chemical, especially a textile fibre.