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# artificial

«artificial» in Mova's school dictionary: **made by people, not natural** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

1) Artificial means made by people, not natural. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/artificial/#m1)

2) Artificial means a copy of something natural: «artificial flowers». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/artificial/#m2)

3) Artificial behaviour is not sincere; fake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/artificial/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science and design lessons: natural versus artificial (man-made) materials, artificial light, artificial sweeteners. In computing: artificial intelligence (AI) means computer programs that do tasks needing thinking. In stories, an «artificial smile» is fake.

### examples

- The pitch is made of artificial grass. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/artificial/#x1)
- Plastic is an artificial material. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/artificial/#x2)
- We read by artificial light at night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/artificial/#x3)
- Artificial flowers never need water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/artificial/#x4)
- Artificial intelligence helps computers understand speech. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/artificial/#x5)
- Her smile looked artificial. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/artificial/#x6)
- This drink has no artificial colours. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/artificial/#x7)
- Then the artificial bird had to sing alone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/artificial/#x8)

### note

Spelling: arti-fi-cial (ends in «-cial»). Adverb: artificially. Opposite: natural. Not everything artificial is bad, and not everything natural is safe.

### In the corpora

- [In 1957 the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the first artificial satellite, a metal ball that beeped as it circled the Earth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/35-space-from-sputnik-to-the-moon/6/)
- [Artificial grass scrapes bare skin more than real grass, so long socks, leggings or sliding shorts protect the legs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/49-blisters-astro-burns-and-nosebleeds-mid-match/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «artificial» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/artificial/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.