synthetic.
Of, or relating to synthesis.
Meaning & usage
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.
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.
Where this word comes from
From French synthétique, from Ancient Greek συνθετικός (sunthetikós); Equivalent to synthesis + -ic (suffix formation of -tic).
A synthetic compound.
Where this word comes from
From French synthétique, from Ancient Greek συνθετικός (sunthetikós); Equivalent to synthesis + -ic (suffix formation of -tic).
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