adv
Meaning 1
In an artificial manner.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- The actor spoke his lines artificially, with too much intonation.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
artificially
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Pronunciation
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adv
Meaning 2
By or because of human effort.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- The chocolate was flavoured artificially.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adverb
Meaning 3
not according to nature; not by natural means
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- artificially induced conditions
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: unnaturally, by artificial means
Antonyms: naturally
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English artificial Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English artificially From artificial + -ly.
Across languages
Translations
16 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: artificialment — in an artificial manner
- Czech: uměle — in an artificial manner
- Finnish: keinotekoisesti — in an artificial manner
- French: artificiellement — in an artificial manner
- Galician: artificialmente — in an artificial manner
- Georgian: ხელოვნურად (xelovnurad) — in an artificial manner
- German: künstlich — in an artificial manner
- Ido: artificale — in an artificial manner
- Italian: artificialmente — in an artificial manner
- Norman: artificiellement — in an artificial manner
- Polish: afektowanie — in an artificial manner
- Portuguese: artificialmente — in an artificial manner
- Russian: иску́сственно (iskússtvenno) — in an artificial manner
- Spanish: artificialmente — in an artificial manner
- Swedish: konstgjort — in an artificial manner
- Swedish: artificiellt — in an artificial manner
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