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Definition/Meaning

(verb)

Created or produced artificially, rather than occurring naturally.

e.g. The company used simulated data to test their new software.

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Similar Words

Affected

Artificial

Bogus

Claptrap

Contrived

Cutesy

Dummy

Ersatz

Factitious

Fake

Faked

False

Faux

Feigned

Forced

Glib

Imitation

Imitative

Man-made

Mechanical

Mimic

Mock

Overrefined

Phony

Pinchbeck

Plastic

Pretend

Pretended

Professed

Pseudo

Put-on

Sham

Simpering

Spurious

Strained

Substitute

Synthetic

Unnatural

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Opposite Words

Authentic

Bona fide

Certifiable

Certified

Distinguished

Easy

Effortless

Extemporaneous

Fingered

Genuine

Honest

Impromptu

Impulsive

Instinctive

Legitimate

Premium

Pukka

Pure

Quality

Real

Realistic

Right

Sincere

Smooth

True

Unconscious

Uncontrived

Unfaked

Unprompted

Unrehearsed

Unstudied

Valuable

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Related Words

Adulterated

Affected

Apish

Artful

Artificial

Automatic

Backhand

Backhanded

Bogus

Brummagem

Calculated

Canned

Concealed

Conscious

Conventional

Counterfeit

Cultivated

Cultured

Cute

Deceptive

Deliberate

Designer

Done

Double

Double-faced

Empty

Exaggerated

Facile

Fake

Faked

False

Feigned

Forged

Formal

Formulaic

Fraudulent

Genteel

Goody-goody

Histrionic

Hokey

Hollow

Hypocritical

Imitative

Impersonal

Inauthentic

Inflexible

Insincere

Janus-faced

Jive

Labored

Left-handed

Lip

Masked

Mealy

Mealymouthed

Mimetic

Mimic

Mincing

Overrefined

Pat

Pecksniffian

Phony

Pinchbeck

Premeditated

Pretended

Process

Pseudo

Queer

Rigid

Sham

Simpering

Slavish

Snide

Spurious

Stiff

Studied

Theatrical

Two

Two-faced

Unauthentic

Unctuous

Unoriginal

Unreal

Unrealistic

Wooden

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