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synthetic
- /sɪnˈθɛtɪk/
Where it comes from
From French synthétique, from Ancient Greek συνθετικός (sunthetikós); Equivalent to synthesis + -ic (suffix formation of -tic).
adjective more synthetic · most synthetic
- Of, or relating to synthesis.
- Produced by synthesis instead of being isolated from a natural source (but may be identical to a product so obtained). 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
- Produced by synthesis, thought to have the same effect as its natural counterpart, but chemically different from it.
- Of a smell, taste, or other sensory quality: artificial; perceptible as an unnatural taste.
- Artificial, not genuine.
- Pertaining to the joining of bound morphemes in a word (compare analytic).
- Of a language, having a grammar principally dependent on the use of bound morphemes to indicate syntactic relationships.
noun synthetics
- A synthetic compound. Only plastics and synthetics that cannot be recycled will end up in landfills, he said.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: synthetical, combining, celluloid, polysynthetic, imitative, inflectional, agglutinative, inflected, man-made, artificial, counterfeit, semisynthetic, unreal, synthesized, synthesizing, synoptic
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adj produced by chemical synthesis
| हिन्दी | संश्लिष्ट sañśliṣṭ |
|---|---|
| Kiswahili | sintetiki |
| Português | sintético |
| Deutsch | synthetisch |
| Italiano | sintetico |
| Ελληνικά | συνθετικός synthetikós |
| Русский | синтети́ческий sintɛtíčeskij |
adj of, or relating to synthesis
| हिन्दी | संश्लिष्ट sañśliṣṭ |
|---|---|
| Português | sintético |
| Français | synthétique |
| Italiano | sintetico |
| Ελληνικά | συνθετικός synthetikós |
| Română | sintetic |
| Русский | синтети́ческий sintɛtíčeskij |
adj artificial, not genuine
| Español | sintético |
|---|---|
| हिन्दी | संश्लिष्ट sañśliṣṭ |
| Português | artificial, sintético |
| Italiano | sintetico |
| Ελληνικά | συνθετικός synthetikós |
| Română | artificial |
| Русский | синтети́ческий sintɛtíčeskij, иску́сственный iskússtvennyj |
adj pertaining to the joining of bound morphemes in a word
| Português | sintético |
|---|---|
| Русский | синтети́ческий sintɛtíčeskij |
Talk about this word "synthetic." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/synthetic. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. synthetic. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/synthetic "synthetic." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/synthetic.Cite this
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title = {synthetic},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
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