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Nouns (7)

pacemaker

n. an implanted electronic device that takes over the function of the natural cardiac pacemaker

pacer, pacemaker, pacesetter

n. a horse used to set the pace in racing

pacemaker, cardiac pacemaker, sinoatrial node

n. a specialized bit of heart tissue that controls the heartbeat

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Adjectives (6)

artificial

adj. not arising from natural growth or characterized by vital processes

artificial, unreal

adj. contrived by art rather than nature; "artificial flowers"; "artificial flavoring"; "an artificial diamond"; "artificial fibers"; "artificial sweeteners"

artificial, contrived, stilted

adj. artificially formal; "that artificial humility that her husband hated"; "contrived coyness"; "a stilted letter of acknowledgment"; "when people try to correct their speech they develop a stilted pronunciation"

Fuzzynyms (91)

leader

n. a person who rules or guides or inspires others

commander, commandant, commanding officer

n. an officer in command of a military unit

dictator, potentate

n. a ruler who is unconstrained by law

master

n. directs the work of other

ruler

n. a person who rules or commands; "swayer of the universe"

trend-setter, taste-maker, fashion arbiter

n. someone who popularizes a new fashion

forerunner, precursor

n. a person who goes before or announces the coming of another

predecessor

n. one who precedes you in time (as in holding a position or office)

adventurer, explorer

n. someone who travels into little known regions (especially for some scientific purpose)

pioneer, innovator

n. someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art

guide, scout, pathfinder

n. someone who can find paths through unexplored territory

mock

adj. constituting a copy or imitation of something; "boys in mock battle"

inauthentic, unauthentic, spurious

adj. intended to deceive; "a spurious work of art"

sham, pseudo, put on, assumed, feigned, fictitious, pretended

adj. adopted in order to deceive; "an assumed name"; "an assumed cheerfulness"; "a fictitious address"; "fictive sympathy"; "a pretended interest"; "a put-on childish voice"; "sham modesty"

insincere, hypocritical

adj. lacking sincerity; "a charming but thoroughly insincere woman"; "their praise was extravagant and insincere"

false

adj. not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality; "gave false testimony under oath"; "false tales of bravery"

manufactured

adj. produced in a large-scale industrial operation

hollow, false

adj. deliberately deceptive; "hollow (or false) promises"; "false pretenses"

artificial, contrived, stilted

gilded, spurious, meretricious, specious

adj. based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; "the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; "meretricious praise"; "a meretricious argument"

misleading, deceitful, deceptive, fraudulent

adj. intended to deceive; "deceitful advertising"; "fallacious testimony"; "smooth, shining, and deceitful as thin ice" - S.T.Coleridge; "a fraudulent scheme to escape paying taxes"

cool, formal

adj. (reserved)

quack

adj. medically unqualified; "a quack doctor"

false

adj. not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality; "gave false testimony under oath"; "false tales of bravery"

misleading, deceitful, deceptive, fraudulent

adj. intended to deceive; "deceitful advertising"; "fallacious testimony"; "smooth, shining, and deceitful as thin ice" - S.T.Coleridge; "a fraudulent scheme to escape paying taxes"

deceptive, delusory

adj. causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true; "deceptive calm"; "a delusory pleasure"

insincere, hypocritical

adj. lacking sincerity; "a charming but thoroughly insincere woman"; "their praise was extravagant and insincere"

sham, pseudo, put on, assumed, feigned, fictitious, pretended

adj. adopted in order to deceive; "an assumed name"; "an assumed cheerfulness"; "a fictitious address"; "fictive sympathy"; "a pretended interest"; "a put-on childish voice"; "sham modesty"

inauthentic, unauthentic, spurious

adj. intended to deceive; "a spurious work of art"

mock

adj. constituting a copy or imitation of something; "boys in mock battle"

artificial, unreal

adj. contrived by art rather than nature; "artificial flowers"; "artificial flavoring"; "an artificial diamond"; "artificial fibers"; "artificial sweeteners"

overblown, grandiloquent, pompous, pontifical, portentous

adj. puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek

Victorian, prim, prissy, square-toed, puritanical, priggish, prudish, straitlaced, strait-laced, straightlaced, straight-laced, tight-laced

adj. exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts"

Synonyms (14)

amorphous, unstructured

adj. lacking the system or structure characteristic of living bodies

mineral

adj. composed of matter other than plant or animal; "the inorganic mineral world"

counterfeit, imitative

adj. not genuine; imitating something superior; "counterfeit emotion"; "counterfeit money"; "counterfeit works of art"; "a counterfeit prince"

unreal

adj. lacking in reality or substance or genuineness; not corresponding to acknowledged facts or criteria; "ghosts and other unreal entities"; "unreal propaganda serving as news"

agonistic, strained

adj. struggling for effect; "agonistic poses"

strained, constrained, forced

adj. lacking spontaneity; not natural; "a constrained smile"; "forced heartiness"; "a strained smile"

elocutionary

adj. (used of style of speaking) overly embellished; "an elocutionary Oxonian delivery"

mannered

adj. having unnatural mannerisms; "brief, mannered and unlifelike idiom"

plummy

adj. (of a voice) affectedly mellow and rich; "the radio announcer's plummy voice"

Antonyms (9)

natural

adj. existing in or produced by nature; not artificial or imitation; "a natural pearl"; "natural gas"; "natural silk"; "natural blonde hair"; "a natural sweetener"; "natural fertilizers"

genuine

adj. not fake or counterfeit; "a genuine Picasso"; "genuine leather"

authentic, unquestionable, veritable, bona fide

adj. not counterfeit or copied; "an authentic signature"; "a bona fide manuscript"; "an unquestionable antique"; "photographs taken in a veritable bull ring"

sincere

adj. open and genuine; not deceitful; "he was a good man, decent and sincere"; "felt sincere regret that they were leaving"; "sincere friendship"

natural, unaffected

adj. free of artificiality; sincere and genuine; "an unaffected grace"

artificial pacemaker

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