synthetic

Meanings

Plural: synthetics

Noun

• a compound made artificially by chemical reactions
• A synthetic compound.

Adjective Satellite

• not of natural origin; prepared or made artificially
  • "synthetic leather"
• artificial as if portrayed in a film
• not genuine or natural; - George Will
  • "counterfeit rhetoric that flourishes when passions are synthetic"

Adjective

• involving or of the nature of synthesis (combining separate elements to form a coherent whole) as opposed to analysis; - P.S.Welch
  • "limnology is essentially a synthetic science composed of elements...that extend well beyond the limits of biology"
• systematic combining of root and modifying elements into single words
• of a proposition whose truth value is determined by observation or facts
  • "`all men are arrogant' is a synthetic proposition"

Adj

• Of, or relating to synthesis.
• Produced by synthesis instead of being isolated from a natural source (but may be identical to a product so obtained).
• Produced by synthesis, thought to have the same effect as its natural counterpart, but chemically different from it.
• Artificial, not genuine.
• Pertaining to the joining of bound morphemes in a word (compare analytic).
• Of a language, having a grammar principally dependent on the use of bound morphemes to indicate syntactic relationships (compare analytic).

Synonyms

celluloid, man-made, semisynthetic, synthetic substance, synthetical

Antonyms

analytic

Anagrams of synthetic