artificially
/ˌɑɹtəfˈɪʃəli/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.44 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
5
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In an artificial manner.
adv
By or because of human effort.
Example Sentences
- "The actor spoke his lines artificially, with too much intonation."
- "These albuminous substances, whether found as normal products or created artificially in the blood, are distinguished as antitoxins, protective proteïds, vaccines, or alexines; physiologically they have been divided into sozines, those found in animals naturally immune, and phylaxines, those found in animals which by subcutaneous injections have artificially been made immune."
- "The chocolate was flavoured artificially."
- "This lake had been artificially made by the damming up of the stream that had previously wasted itself unornamentally, […]"
- "The coup was well-planned. Fuel was artificially held back so as to create shortages and dissatisfaction with Brotherhood rule. The old state-controlled unions mounted public sector strikes that further sabotaged the economy and annoyed people. Police-controlled thugs who had been used against the Tahrir Square demonstrations in 2011 came back into action."
- "Images taken from an electron microscope reveal the way the gold atoms have formed into a highly organised lattice. Other images show gold nanoseaweed that has been artificially coloured."
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.
Inflected Forms
more artificially (comparative)
most artificially (superlative)