synthetic

English

Adjective

synthetic (comparative more synthetic, superlative most synthetic)

1. Of, or relating to synthesis.
2. (chemistry) Produced by synthesis instead of being isolated from a natural source (but may be identical to a product so obtained).
3. Artificial, not genuine.
4. (grammar) Pertaining to the joining of bound morphemes in a word. Compare analytic.

Derived terms

• nucleosynthetic

Translations

Translations

Bengali: কৃত্রিম (bn) (kritrim) Catalan: sintètic (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 合成的 (zh) (héchéng de) Croatian: sintetičan (hr) (1,2), umjetan (hr) (3) Czech: syntetický (cs) m. Esperanto: sinteza (eo) French: synthétique (fr) (1) German: synthetisch (de)

Greek: συνθετικός (el) (sinthetikós) Ido: sintezala (io) Japanese: 合成 (ja) (ごうせい, gōsei) Portuguese: sintético (pt) (1,2), artificial (pt) (3) Romanian: sintetic (ro) m. and n., sintetică (ro) f. Russian: синтетический (ru) (sintɛtíčeskij) (1-4), искусственный (ru) (iskússtvennyj) (3) Scottish Gaelic: (not genuine) fuadain (gd) Spanish: sintético (es) Turkish: sentetik (tr)

Noun

synthetic (plural synthetics)

1. A synthetic compound.
   • 2007 January 14, Elsa Brenner, “Art House to Get a Campus”, New York Times:

     Only plastics and synthetics that cannot be recycled will end up in landfills, he said.