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 (cmn) (héchéng de)

• 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)
• Polish: syntetyczny (pl)
• 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)
• Serbo-Croatian: sintetičan (sh) (1,2), umjetan (sh) (3)
• 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.