Artificial
Crossword Clue and Answers

Crossword Answers

4 letters

FAUX
Not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article; "it isn't fake anything; it's real synthetic fur"; "faux pearls"; "false teeth"; "decorated with imitation palm leaves"; "a purse of simulated alligator hide"

SHAM
Something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be

MOCK
The act of mocking or ridiculing; "they made a mock of him"

FAKE
(football) a deceptive move made by a football player

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FAKED

DUMMY
A cartridge containing an explosive charge but no bullet

BOGUS
Fraudulent; having a misleading appearance

HOKEY
Effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressions of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry"

FALSE
Deliberately deceptive; "false pretenses"

PHONY
A person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives

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ERSATZ
Artificial and inferior; "ersatz coffee"; "substitute coffee"

UNREAL
Contrived by art rather than nature; "artificial flowers"; "artificial flavoring"; "an artificial diamond"; "artificial fibers"; "artificial sweeteners"

FORCED
Made necessary by an unexpected situation or emergency; "a forced landing"

WARPED
Used especially of timbers or boards; bent out of shape usually by moisture; "the floors were warped and cracked"

QUAINT
Strange in an interesting or pleasing way; "quaint dialect words"; "quaint streets of New Orleans, that most foreign of American cities"

PSEUDO
A person who makes deceitful pretenses

HOLLOW
A cavity or space in something; "hunger had caused the hollows in their cheeks"

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MANMADE

STILTED
Artificially formal; "that artificial humility that her husband hated"; "contrived coyness"; "a stilted letter of acknowledgment"; "when people try to correct their speech they develop a stilted pronunciation"

MINCING
Affectedly dainty or refined

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AFFECTED
Speaking or behaving in an artificial way to make an impression

MANNERED
Having unnatural mannerisms; "brief, mannered and unlifelike idiom"

ARROGANT
Having or showing feelings of unwarranted importance out of overbearing pride; "an arrogant official"; "arrogant claims"; "chesty as a peacock"

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INORGANIC
Lacking the properties characteristic of living organisms

UNNATURAL
Speaking or behaving in an artificial way to make an impression

SYNTHETIC
Involving or of the nature of synthesis (combining separate elements to form a coherent whole) as opposed to analysis; "limnology is essentially a synthetic science composed of elements...that extend well beyond the limits of biology"- P.S.Welch

CONTRIVED
Artificially formal; "that artificial humility that her husband hated"; "contrived coyness"; "a stilted letter of acknowledgment"; "when people try to correct their speech they develop a stilted pronunciation"

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HIGHSOUNDING

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SELFCONSCIOUS

OVERELABORATE

COUNTERFEITED

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SUPPOSITITIOUS
Based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence; "theories about the extinction of dinosaurs are still highly conjectural"; "the supposed reason for his absence"; "suppositious reconstructions of dead languages"; "hypothetical situation"