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adjective

Synthetical, Synthetic adj.

Of or pertaining to synthesis; consisting in synthesis or composition; as, the synthetic method of reasoning, as opposed to analytical. "Philosophers hasten too much from the analytic to the synthetic method; that is, they draw general conclusions from too small a number of particular observations and experiments."

(Chem.) Artificial. Cf. Synthesis, 2.

(Zool.) Comprising within itself structural or other characters which are usually found only in two or more diverse groups; said of species, genera, and higher groups. See the Note under Comprehensive, 3.

Synthetic language, or Synthetical language, an inflectional language, or one characterized by grammatical endings; opposed to analytic language.

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Etymology of 'Synthetic'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Synthetic" Quotes from Famous Books

... has ruined the world. If we could only have lived a thousand years ago, when life was simple and natural, when men hunted and killed their meat, instead of drinking synthetic stuff, when men still had the joys of conflict, instead of living under glass, like ...

— The Cosmic Express • John Stewart Williamson

... a little further. Of the two great Celtic divisions of language, the Gaelic and the Cymric, the Gaelic, say the philologists, is more related to the younger, more synthetic, group of languages, Sanscrit, Greek, Zend, Latin and Teutonic; the Cymric to the older, more analytic Turanian group. Of the more synthetic Aryan group, again, Zend and Teutonic are, in their turn, looser and more analytic than Sanscrit and Greek, more in sympathy with the Turanian group ...

— Celtic Literature • Matthew Arnold

... the neuro-pistol that had been given him. It looked all right. But when he broke the seal and unscrewed the little glass tube in the butt, he discovered that it was empty. The gray, synthetic radio-active material from which it drew ...

— The Martian Cabal • Roman Frederick Starzl

... be forgotten that whenever the cube is separated and divided, recombination should follow, and that the gift plays should always close with synthetic processes. ...

— Froebel's Gifts • Kate Douglas Wiggin

... the whole personal life of man and with his conjunct life in the social group and in the world of nature; it is, in short, so much an {xix} affair of man's whole of experience, of his spirit in its undivided and synthetic aspects, that it can never be adequately dealt with by the analytic and descriptive method of this wonderful new god of science, however big with results that method ...

— Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries • Rufus M. Jones

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