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Synthetic

Synthetic Meaning & Definition
Synthetic Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Synthetic?

[n] a compound made artificially by chemical reactions
[adj] (logic) of a proposition; having a truth value determined by observation or facts, as"all men are arrogant"
[adj] (linguistics) systematic combining of root and modifying elements into single words
[adj] 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
[adj] not genuine or natural; "counterfeit rhetoric that flourishes when passions are synthetic"- George Will
[adj] artificial as if portrayed in a film; "a novel with flat celluloid characters"
[adj] (chemistry) not of natural origin; prepared or made artificially; "man-made fibers"; "synthetic leather"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Synthetic: agglutinative | artificial | celluloid | combining(a) | counterfeit | imitative | inflectional | man-made | polysynthetic | semisynthetic | synthetical | unreal

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See Also | a posteriori | chemical compound | compound | inductive | logical | Plasticine

Synthetic In Webster's Dictionary

\Syn*thet"ic\, Synthetical \Syn*thet"ic*al\, a. [Gr. ?: cf. F. synth['e]tique.] 1. Of or pertaining to synthesis; consisting in synthesis or composition; as, the synthetic method of reasoning, as opposed to analytical. Philosophers hasten too much from the analytic to the synthetic method; that is, they draw general conclusions from too small a number of particular observations and experiments. --Bolingbroke. 2. (Chem.) Artificial. Cf. {Synthesis}, 2. 3. (Zo["o]l.) Comprising within itself structural or other characters which are usually found only in two or more diverse groups; -- said of species, genera, and higher groups. See the Note under {Comprehensive}, 3. {Synthetic}, or {Synthetical language}, an inflectional language, or one characterized by grammatical endings; -- opposed to {analytic language}. --R. Morris.

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