Adjective synthetic has 6 senses
- man-made, semisynthetic, synthetic - not of natural origin; prepared or made artificially; "man-made fibers"; "synthetic leather"
Antonym: natural (indirect, via artificial)
- synthetic, synthetical - 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
Antonyms: analytic, analytical
- synthetic - systematic combining of root and modifying elements into single words
Antonyms: analytic, uninflected, isolating
- synthetic, synthetical - of a proposition whose truth value is determined by observation or facts; "`all men are arrogant' is a synthetic proposition"
Antonyms: analytic, analytical
- celluloid, synthetic - artificial as if portrayed in a film; "a novel with flat celluloid characters"
Antonym: natural (indirect, via artificial)
- synthetic - not genuine or natural; "counterfeit rhetoric that flourishes when passions are synthetic"- George Will
Antonyms: genuine, echt (indirect, via counterfeit)
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Noun synthetic has 1 sense
- synthetic - a compound made artificially by chemical reactions
--1 is a kind of compound, chemical compound
--1 has particulars: Plasticine
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