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.

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• natural
• raw
• crude

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of industrial

There is, of course, some of Doom 2016’s signature industrial droning in the background of each track to try to imbue at least some of the franchise’s sonic fingerprint. —Kazuma Hashimoto, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2025

Hyundai’s $20 billion push into auto and steel plants will demand assembly line workers, quality control inspectors, and industrial mechanics. —Jack Kelly, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025

This is what sets apart a family farm from an industrial operation, or a craft brewery from a conglomerate. —Scott Hutcheson, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025

While submarine construction has increased drastically, the number of suppliers to the industrial base has dropped to about 5,000 from the 17,000 companies in business during the last submarine construction surge in the 1980s, the Navy said. —Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 31 Mar. 2025