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Synthetic   /sɪnθˈɛtɪk/   Listen
Synthetic

adjective
1.
Not of natural origin; prepared or made artificially.  Synonyms: man-made, semisynthetic.  "Synthetic leather"
2.
Involving or of the nature of synthesis (combining separate elements to form a coherent whole) as opposed to analysis.  Synonym: synthetical.  Antonym: analytic.
3.
Systematic combining of root and modifying elements into single words.  Antonym: analytic.
4.
Of a proposition whose truth value is determined by observation or facts.  Synonym: synthetical.  Antonym: analytic.
5.
Artificial as if portrayed in a film.  Synonym: celluloid.
6.
Not genuine or natural.
noun
1.
A compound made artificially by chemical reactions.  Synonym: synthetic substance.



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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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