artificious
artificious adjective: using, exhibiting, performed with or characterized by artfulness or skill.
Adjective
artificious (comparative more artificious, superlative most artificious)
- Using, exhibiting, performed with or characterized by artfulness or skill
- As for the hands, when she parted them into many fingers, and those of unequal length and bigness, she hath made them of all other organical parts the most proper artificious and workmanlike instruments1603, Plutarch, translated by Philemon Holland, The Philosophie, Commonlie Called, The Morals […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield, →OCLC
- Upon their artificious and dilatory answers he immediately draws his forces together, and with an army, under the command of Spinola, marches towards Juliers.1687, Sir William Temple, Observations upon the United Provinces of the Netherlands
Synonyms of artificious
Forms of artificious
| comparative | more artificious |
|---|---|
| superlative | most artificious |
Origin of artificious
Latin artificiosus.
Questions about artificious
- What does artificious mean?
- Artificious means using, exhibiting, performed with or characterized by artfulness or skill.
- What part of speech is artificious?
- Artificious is an adjective.
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