English Explanatory Dictionary

synthetic

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj

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).
Produced by synthesis, thought to have the same effect as its natural counterpart, but chemically different from it.
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

A synthetic compound.

Pronunciation

sĭnthĕt'ĭk /sɪnˈθɛtɪk/ en-us-synthetic.ogg

Word forms

synthetic more synthetic most synthetic synthetics

Etymology

From French synthétique, from Ancient Greek συνθετικός (sunthetikós); Equivalent to synthesis + -ic (suffix formation of -tic).

Derived words

biosynthetic chemosynthetic ecosynthetic electrosynthetic geosynthetic hemisynthetic heterosynthetic mechanosynthetic metasynthetic mutasynthetic narcosynthetic nonsynthetic nucleosynthetic oligosynthetic osteosynthetic parasynthetic phosphosynthetic photoelectrosynthetic photosynthetic polysynthetic postsynthetic presynthetic proteosynthetic psychosynthetic pyrosynthetic radiosynthetic retrosynthetic sDMARD semisynthetic simvastatin synfuel synthespian synthetic air synthetical synthetically synthetic biology synthetic division synthetic element synthetic fiber synthetic fibre synthetic future synthetic geometry synthetic ice synthetic ice skate synthetic intelligence syntheticism syntheticity synthetic lethality synthetic meat synthetic paper synthetic philosophy synthetic phonics synthetic theory synthfuel syntocinon synzyme thermosynthetic tomosynthetic unsynthetic

Translations

Armenian: սինթետիկ Belarusian: сінтэты́чны Catalan: sintètic Czech: syntetický Dutch: synthetisch Galician: sintético German: synthetisch Greek: συνθετικός Hindi: संश्लिष्ट Hungarian: szintetikus Indonesian: sintetis Italian: sintetico Kazakh: синтездік Kazakh: синтетикалық Polish: syntetyczny Portuguese: sintético Russian: синтети́ческий Serbo-Croatian: синтѐтичан Serbo-Croatian: sintètičan Swahili: sintetiki Swedish: syntetiserad Tagalog: ginanggang Ukrainian: синтети́чний

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