synthetic
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Etymology[edit]
From French synthétique, from Ancient Greek συνθετικός (sunthetikós).
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
synthetic (comparative more synthetic, superlative most synthetic)
- Of, or relating to synthesis.
- (chemistry) Produced by synthesis instead of being isolated from a natural source (but may be identical to a product so obtained).
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2013 August 10, “A new prescription”, The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
- As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.
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- Artificial, not genuine.
- (grammar) Pertaining to the joining of bound morphemes in a word. Compare analytic.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
Of, or relating to synthesis
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(chemistry) Produced by synthesis
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Artificial, not genuine
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(grammar) Pertaining to the joining of bound morphemes in a word
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Noun[edit]
synthetic (plural synthetics)
- A synthetic compound.
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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.
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