synthetic
adj 1: (chemistry) not of natural origin; prepared or made
artificially; "man-made fibers"; "synthetic leather"
[syn: {man-made}, {semisynthetic}]
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 [syn: {synthetical}] [ant: {analytic}]
3: (linguistics) systematic combining of root and modifying
elements into single words [ant: {analytic}]
4: (logic) of a proposition; having a truth value determined by
observation or facts, as "all men are arrogant" [syn: {synthetical}]
[ant: {analytic}]
5: artificial as if portrayed in a film; "a novel with flat
celluloid characters" [syn: {celluloid}]
6: not genuine or natural; "counterfeit rhetoric that
flourishes when passions are synthetic"- George Will
n : a compound made artificially by chemical reactions