ARTIFICIAL
ADJECTIVES
► FACIT artificial → 1985 US (Bk.)
► FACTITIOUS artificial, made by or resulting from art → 1646 obs.
► FAKE artificial; made in imitation without fraudulent intent → 1909
► HOKEY ► HOKIE ► HOKY sentimentally or melodramatically artificial; pretentious → 1945 sl., orig. US
► TINSEL-TOWN artificial; ephemeral → 1984 Aust. colloq. (Bk.)
NOUNS
► FALSIE ► FALSY anything artificial or false; a prosthesis → 1940 Amer. sl.
VERBS
► ART to make artificial → 1628 obs.
► HOKE UP to render something artificial or insincere → 1935 sl., orig. US
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