Synthetic

adj. of or pertaining to synthesis; artificial, man-made; not real, not genuine; of or pertaining to a language that uses inflectional affixes to express relationships

n. something made through synthesis, man-made product, artificial substance

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Noun
1. a compound made artificially by chemical reactions
(hypernym) compound, chemical compound
(hyponym) Plasticine

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Adjective
1. not of natural origin; prepared or made artificially; "man-made fibers"; "synthetic leather"
(synonym) man-made, semisynthetic
(similar) artificial, unreal
(classification) chemistry, chemical science
2. 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
(synonym) synthetical
(antonym) analytic, analytical
3. systematic combining of root and modifying elements into single words
(antonym) analytic, uninflected
(similar) agglutinative, polysynthetic
(classification) linguistics
4. of a proposition whose truth value is determined by observation or facts; "`all men are arrogant' is a synthetic proposition"
(synonym) synthetical
(antonym) analytic, analytical
(see-also) a posteriori
(classification) logic
5. artificial as if portrayed in a film; "a novel with flat celluloid characters"
(synonym) celluloid
(similar) artificial, unreal
6. not genuine or natural; "counterfeit rhetoric that flourishes when passions are synthetic"- George Will
(similar) counterfeit, imitative

příd.jm. syntetický

Przym. syntetyczny; sztuczny