by artificial means

1. 1.

   not according to nature; not by natural means

   “artificially induced conditions”

   Synonymsartificiallyunnaturally

Questions about by artificial means

What does by artificial means mean?

by artificial means means "not according to nature; not by natural means".

What is another word for by artificial means?

Close synonyms include artificially, unnaturally. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is by artificial means a common word?

by artificial means is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.