natural(NOT ARTIFICIAL)

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

made by humans
artificialHer bouquet was made of artificial flowers.
syntheticThe tyres are made with synthetic rubber.
man-madeNylon is a man-made fibre.
fakeHe was selling fake fur jackets.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Natural and artificial
anti-natural
artificial
artificiality
artificially
biodynamic
fake
false
freshness
God-given
imitation
pure
rawness
refined
simulated
synthetic
unnatural
unnaturally
unposed
unprocessed
untamed

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Creating and producing

man-made | American Dictionary

man-made
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/ˈmænˈmeɪd/
produced or developed by humans rather than coming directly from nature:
man-made fibers

man-made | Business English

man-made
adjective
uk /ˌmænˈmeɪd/ us /ˈmænˌmeɪd/
made by people, rather than existing naturally:
man-made fibres

Examples of man-made

man-made
Well we found other things but, yes, they are man-made.
The mobile robot studied will move in man-made environments.
Pictures are man-made, frozen moments in time that have little to do with normal behavior of organisms.
Using a one-sector approach and multi-sector endogenous growth models the accumulation and the substitution of man-made inputs for natural resources are analysed.
A great deal of normal human education consists of learning an inventor y of indices, both natural and man-made; we learn what goes with what.
It consists of twenty-one large floating sculptures,1 modelled to represent clusters of river reeds in immaculate man-made plantings.
Work started in 1960, and the dam that came into operation in 1971 created one of the largest man-made lakes in the world.
All study sites show evidence of past fires, probably attributable to both natural and man-made causes.
Regional/country values for gross investment, depreciation of man-made capital and natural capital are given in appendix table 4.
It remains possible that some other type of relational constraint might better characterize the nature of identification errors for man-made objects.
This requires that man-made errors are independent of natural stochastic events.
This is a period when settlement was still sparse and where the man-made imprint on the landscape was relatively slight.
Among the man-made habitats, shaded plantations were especially rich in bat captures and species.
Most of the time these man-made barriers are successful in separating portions of a system from each other.
Measure is essential to the making, understanding, use and enjoyment of a man-made object in a particular cultural setting.
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