Artificial
Made or contrived by art; produced or modified by human skill and labor, in opposition to natural; as, artificial heat or light, gems, salts, minerals, fountains, flowers.
Feigned; fictitious; assumed; affected; not genuine.
Artful; cunning; crafty.
Cultivated; not indigenous; not of spontaneous growth; as, artificial grasses.
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Artificial Quotations
In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
Thomas Jefferson
The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.
Henry Miller
Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.
George Bernard Shaw
Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls.
Gertrude Stein
Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.
Margaret Mead
Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.
Thomas Merton
I don't like LA. The majority just seem to be so artificial. Look at how they worship everything they think is fashionable. Isn't it sick?
Billie Joe Armstrong
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
William Faulkner
It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.
Thomas Huxley
Mr. DeMille's theory of sexual difference was that marriage is an artificial state for women. The want to be taken, ruled, raped. That was his theory.
Hedy Lamarr
Artificial Translations
artificial in Afrikaans is kunstig, onnatuurlik
artificial in Danish is kunstig
artificial in Dutch is gekunsteld, gewrongen, gemaakt
artificial in French is artificiel
artificial in Italian is artefatto
artificial in Latin is facticius
artificial in Norwegian is kunstig
artificial in Spanish is artificial
artificial in Swedish is artificiell, konstgjord
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