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| Main Entry: |
artificial
 [ahr-tuh-fish-uhl] 
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fake; imitation |
| Synonyms: | bogus, counterfeit, ersatz, fabricated, factitious, faked, false, falsie, hyped up, manufactured, mock, phony*, plastic, sham, simulated, specious, spurious, substitute, synthetic, unnatural, unreal |
| Antonyms: | genuine, natural, real |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | affected |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | changed in a bad or artificial way |
| Synonyms: | apish, artificial, assumed, awkward, campy, chichi*, conceited, contrived, counterfeit, counterfeited, faked, false, feigned, fraud*, gone Hollywood, ham, hammy, high falutin', hollow, imitated, insincere, melodramatic, ostentatious, overdone, pedantic, phony, playacting, pompous, precious, pretended, pretentious, put-on, schmaltzy, self-conscious, shallow, sham*, simulated, spurious, stiff, stilted, studied, superficial, theatrical, unnatural |
| Antonyms: | ok, unchanged, unhurt, unimpaired, uninjured |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | assumed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pretended |
| Synonyms: | affected, artificial, bogus, counterfeit, fake, false, feigned, fictitious, imitation, made-up, make-believe, phony, pretended, put-on, sham, simulated, spurious |
| Antonyms: | genuine, natural, real |
Example Sentences
- Artificial intelligence pioneers point to advances made in law, medicine and other arenas as proof of the vitality of their work.
- Artificial sweeteners don't have any calories, but they might make you fatter than real sugar.
- Bioinformatics involves the use of artificial intelligence algorithms to solve biological problems usually on the molecular level.
| Main Entry: | bogus |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | counterfeit |
| Synonyms: | artificial, dummy, ersatz, fake, false, fictitious, forged, fraudulent, imitation, not what it is cracked up to be, phony, pretended, pseudo, sham, simulated, spurious |
| Antonyms: | authentic, genuine, real |
| Main Entry: | camp |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | consciously affecting the unfashionable, weird, or bizarre |
| Synonyms: | Daliesque, affected, arch, artificial, avant-garde, far out, in, mannered, mod, ostentatious, pop, posturing, wild |
| Main Entry: | contrived |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | overly planned |
| Synonyms: | affected, artificial, elaborate, fake, false, forced, labored, manipulated, overdone, phony, recherché, strained, unnatural, unspontaneous |
| Main Entry: | exaggerated |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | overstated, embellished |
| Synonyms: | a bit thick, abstract, amplified, artificial, bouncing, caricatural, distorted, embroidered, exalted, excessive, extravagant, fabricated, fabulous, false, fantastic, farfetched, hammy, highly colored, histrionic, hyperbolic, impossible, inflated, magnified, melodramatic, out of proportion, overblown, overdone, overestimated, overkill, overwrought, preposterous, pretentious, schmaltzy, sensational, spectacular, steep, strained, stylized, tall, too much*, too-too, unrealistic |
| Antonyms: | depreciated, minimized, played down, reduced, understated, unembellished, unexaggerated |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fake |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | false, imitation |
| Synonyms: | affected, artificial, assumed, bogus, concocted, counterfeit, fabricated, fictitious, forged, fraudulent, invented, make-believe, mock, phony, pretended, pseudo*, reproduction, sham, simulated, spurious |
| Notes: | a fake is a work of art that is deliberately made or altered to appear better, older, or other than what it is; a forgery is a fraudulent imitation of another thing that already exists |
| Antonyms: | genuine, original, real, true, truthful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | false |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fake, counterfeit |
| Synonyms: | adulterated, alloyed, artificial, assumed, bent, bogus*, brummagem, bum*, colored, contrived, copied, crock, deceptive, disguised, ersatz*, fabricated, factitious, feigned, fishy, forged, framed, hollow, imitation, made-up, make-believe, manufactured, meretricious, mock, ostensible, phony, pretended, pseudo*, seeming, shady, sham*, simulated, snide, so-called, spurious, substitute, synthetic, unreal, wrong |
| Antonyms: | actual, genuine, real, valid |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2012 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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