Factitious
21factitious — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. unnatural, false, artificial; see affected 3 , false 3 . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Marked by unnaturalness, pretension, and often a slavish love of fads: artificial, plastic, synthetic, unnatural. See HONEST …
22factitious — fac|ti|tious [fækˈtıʃəs] adj formal [Date: 1600 1700; : Latin; Origin: facticius, from facere to do, make ] made to happen artificially by people rather than happening naturally …
23factitious — fac|ti|tious [ fæk tıʃəs ] adjective VERY FORMAL artificial …
24factitious — fac·ti·tious || fæk tɪʃəs adj. not natural, not genuine, false, artificial …
25factitious — [fak tɪʃəs] adjective artificial; contrived. Derivatives factitiously adverb factitiousness noun Origin C17 (in the sense made by skill ): from L. facticius made by art …
26factitious — a. Artificial, made by art, not natural …
27factitious — adjective formal made to happen artificially by people rather than happening naturally …
28factitious — adj 1. artificial, contrived, affected, insincere, ungenuine, unauthentic, supposititious; faked, simulated, assumed, put on, pretended, unnatural, forced; fake, bogus, sham, mock, counterfeit, pinchbeck; engineered, rigged, set up. 2. made, man… …
29factitious — fac·ti·tious …
30factitious — adj. produced artificially, either deliberately or by accident, and therefore not to be taken into account when the results of an experiment are considered or a diagnosis is being made …