Sekirov Dictionary

synthetic

/sɪnˈθɛtɪk/

adjective7

  1. Produced by synthesis instead of being isolated from a natural source (but may be identical to a product so obtained).
  2. Produced by synthesis, thought to have the same effect as its natural counterpart, but chemically different from it.
  3. Of a smell, taste, or other sensory quality: artificial; perceptible as an unnatural taste.
  4. Artificial, not genuine.
  5. Of, or relating to synthesis.
  6. Pertaining to the joining of bound morphemes in a word (compare analytic).
  7. Of a language, having a grammar principally dependent on the use of bound morphemes to indicate syntactic relationships.

noun1

  1. A synthetic compound.
forms

synthetics · more synthetic · most synthetic

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