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synthetic

/sɪn'θɛtɪk/

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adjective
not of natural origin; prepared or made artificially
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"synthetic leather"

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man-made semisynthetic unreal artificial
adjective
artificial as if portrayed in a film
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celluloid unreal artificial
adjective
involving or of the nature of synthesis (combining separate elements to form a coherent whole) as opposed to analysis
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"limnology is essentially a synthetic science composed of elements...that extend well beyond the limits of biology"

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synthetical

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analytic
noun
a compound made artificially by chemical reactions
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synthetic substance

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chemical compound compound
adjective
of a proposition whose truth value is determined by observation or facts
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"`all men are arrogant' is a synthetic proposition"

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synthetical

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analytic
adjective
not genuine or natural
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"counterfeit rhetoric that flourishes when passions are synthetic"

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counterfeit imitative
adjective
systematic combining of root and modifying elements into single words
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polysynthetic agglutinative

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analytic

Examples of synthetic

"synthetic leather"
"limnology is essentially a synthetic science composed of elements...that extend well beyond the limits of biology"
"`all men are arrogant' is a synthetic proposition"
"counterfeit rhetoric that flourishes when passions are synthetic"