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Adjective
- not genuine or natural
- counterfeit rhetoric that flourishes when passions are synthetic- George Will
- artificial as if portrayed in a film
- a novel with flat celluloid characters
- of a proposition whose truth value is determined by observation or facts
- `all men are arrogant' is a synthetic proposition
- systematic combining of root and modifying elements into single words
- involving or of the nature of synthesis (combining separate elements to form a coherent whole) as opposed to analysis
- limnology is essentially a synthetic science composed of elements...that extend well beyond the limits of biology- P.S.Welch
- not of natural origin; prepared or made artificially
Noun
- a compound made artificially by chemical reactions