Adjective synthetic has 6 senses
  1. man-made, semisynthetic, synthetic - not of natural origin; prepared or made artificially; "man-made fibers"; "synthetic leather"
    Antonym: natural (indirect, via artificial)
  2. 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
  3. synthetic - systematic combining of root and modifying elements into single words
    Antonyms:
    analytic, uninflected, isolating
  4. 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
  5. celluloid, synthetic - artificial as if portrayed in a film; "a novel with flat celluloid characters"
    Antonym: natural (indirect, via artificial)
  6. synthetic - not genuine or natural; "counterfeit rhetoric that flourishes when passions are synthetic"- George Will
    Antonyms:
    genuine, echt (indirect, via counterfeit)
,Noun synthetic has 1 sense
  1. synthetic - a compound made artificially by chemical reactions
    --1 is a kind of
    compound, chemical compound
    --1 has particulars: Plasticine
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