Synonyms of industrial

industrial

adjective

as in mechanical

of or relating to manufacture performed by humans or machines rather than natural processes

They utilize industrial practices to produce large quantities of material.

The late 1700s gave rise to an industrial boom.

Related Words

• mechanical
• manufactured
• synthetic
• fabricated
• cultivated
• artificial
• processed
• refined
• nonnatural
• imitation
• faux
• ersatz
• man-made

Dissimilar Words

• natural
• raw
• crude

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of industrial

Wilmington voters also decided on four separate referendums on whether to uphold the rezoning of four rural residential sites to light industrial sites to accommodate data center construction. — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 4 Nov. 2026

His party has lost its Senate race in Ohio—and looks likely to lose in Michigan, where the post-industrial economy had long supplied the symbolic heart of Trumpism. — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2026

Ohio voters also rejected rezoning areas from rural residential to light industrial for data center usage. — Rachel Treisman, NPR, 4 Nov. 2026

Recent administrative executive orders expanded tariffs beyond traditional sectors to encompass general industrial supplies, motor vehicles, specialized machinery, consumer paper and plastic products and building materials. — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 4 Nov. 2026