artificial
adjective
made by human skill; produced by humans (opposed to natural).
unartificial
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a word derived from
artificial.
Example Sentences
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He was trying to think of the most natural and unartificial thing to say, and his voice seemed to come from the outside, as though he were speaking behind a marionette.
From The Touchstone by Edith Wharton
The isolated pair merely expressed their instincts in the unartificial, natural way.
From The Kempton-Wace Letters by Jack London
The first remark which would be made on reading them relates to their brevity, the breadth of the rules which they lay down, and their plain and unartificial mode of stating them.
From Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity by John Henry Newman
Simple and unartificial as they naturally are, they, being mostly widows, are quite content with habishi unno, which was of yore the food of the Hindoo rishis or saints.
From The Hindoos as they Are A Description of the Manners, Customs and the Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal by Shib Chunder Bose
In The Story of My Heart Richard Jefferies begins his enchanting pages with the expression of that desire which every son of Adam feels at times—the longing for wild, unartificial life.
From The Story of Baden-Powell 'The Wolf That Never Sleeps' by Harold Begbie
