Artificial

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·adj Artful; cunning; crafty.

II. Artificial ·adj Feigned; fictitious; assumed; affected; not genuine.

III. Artificial ·adj Cultivated; not indigenous; not of spontaneous growth; as, artificial grasses.

IV. Artificial ·adj 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.

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