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artificial

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artificial [ahr-tuh-fish-uhl]
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
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
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
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
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
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
Notes: fallacious means intended to deceive; fallible means liable to make a mistake or to be inaccurate or erroneous; false means not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality, or deliberately deceptive, or not genuine or real
Antonyms: actual, genuine, real, valid
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