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Defenition of the word synthetic

    • Defenition of the word synthetic

      • Produced by synthesis instead of being isolated from a natural source.
      • artificial as if portrayed in a film; "a novel with flat celluloid characters"
      • (chemistry) not of natural origin; prepared or made artificially; "man-made fibers"; "synthetic leather"
      • (linguistics) systematic combining of root and modifying elements into single words
      • not genuine or natural; "counterfeit rhetoric that flourishes when passions are synthetic"- George Will
      • a compound made artificially by chemical reactions
      • (logic) of a proposition; having a truth value determined by observation or facts, as "all men are arrogant"
      • involving or of the nature of synthesis (combining separate elements to form a coherent whole) as opposed to analysis; "limnology is essentially a synthetic science composed of elements...that extend well beyond the limits of biology"- P.S.Welch
      • of a proposition whose truth value is determined by observation or facts; "`all men are arrogant'' is a synthetic proposition"
      • systematic combining of root and modifying elements into single words
      • not of natural origin; prepared or made artificially; "man-made fibers"; "synthetic leather"
      • of a proposition whose truth value is determined by observation or facts
      • involving or of the nature of synthesis (combining separate elements to form a coherent whole) as opposed to analysis
      • not genuine or natural
      • artificial as if portrayed in a film
      • not of natural origin; prepared or made artificially

    Synonyms for the word synthetic

      • artificial
      • bogus
      • celluloid
      • copied
      • fake
      • imitation
      • insincere
      • man-made
      • mock
      • phony
      • put on
      • semisynthetic
      • sham
      • synthetical
      • unreal

    Similar words in the synthetic

      • a posteriori
      • agglutinative
      • artificial
      • combining
      • counterfeit
      • imitative
      • inductive
      • inflected
      • inflectional
      • logical
      • polysynthetic
      • synthetic
      • synthetically
      • synthetics
      • unreal

    Hyponyms for the word synthetic

      • phosphor
      • Plasticine
      • rubber
      • synthetic rubber

    Hypernyms for the word synthetic

      • chemical compound
      • compound

    Antonyms for the word synthetic

      • analytic
      • analytical
      • uninflected

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