synthetic
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English[edit]
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).
- 2013 August 10, “A new prescription”, in 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.
- Artificial, not genuine.
- (grammar) Pertaining to the joining of bound morphemes in a word (compare analytic).
- (linguistics) Of a language, having a grammar principally dependent on the use of bound morphemes to indicate syntactic relationships (compare analytic).
Derived terms[edit]
- biosynthetic
- chemosynthetic
- electrosynthetic
- geosynthetic
- hemisynthetic
- heterosynthetic
- mechanosynthetic
- metasynthetic
- mutasynthetic
- narcosynthetic
- nucleosynthetic
- oligosynthetic
- osteosynthetic
- parasynthetic
- photosynthetic
- polysynthetic
- postsynthetic
- presynthetic
- proteosynthetic
- psychosynthetic
- pyrosynthetic
- radiosynthetic
- retrosynthetic
- semisynthetic
- synthetic air
- synthetical
- synthetically
- synthetic biology
- synthetic division
- synthetic fiber
- synthetic ice
- synthetic ice skate
- syntheticism
- syntheticity
- synthetic lethality
- synthetic paper
- synthetic philosophy
- synthetic phonics
- thermosynthetic
- tomosynthetic
Translations[edit]
of, or relating to synthesis
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produced by chemical synthesis
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artificial, not genuine
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pertaining to the joining of bound morphemes in a word
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Noun[edit]
synthetic (plural synthetics)
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