ARTIFICIAL

adj. 1 unnatural, synthetic, man-made, manufactured, simulated, imitation, plastic The museum has a strange collection of artificial teeth on display 2 made-up, concocted, bogus, fake, sham, false, counterfeit, Colloq phoney or US also phony The figures used in the sample survey are entirely artificial 3 affected, unnatural, forced, pretended, high-sounding, feigned, assumed, contrived, factitious; meretricious, insincere, sham, faked, Colloq phoney or US also phony I tell you that Alan's concern for you is entirely artificial