synthetic

Speech parts

1. synthetic - Noun

2. synthetic - Adjective

3. synthetic - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Alt. of Synthetical

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

man-made false manufactured artificial fabricated spurious counterfeit celluloid synthetical ersatz semisynthetic synthetic substance pinchbeck alchemical unreal
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Antonyms

analytic natural real true normal mad
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Hypernyms

compound chemical compound

Hyponyms

phosphor rubber plasticine synthetic rubber

Phrases with the word

synthetic oil change synthetic meat synthetic hair synthetic rubbers synthetic language synthetic drug

Examples

There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic. Lily Tomlin

Notwithstanding their attacks on the basic conception of rationalism, on synthetic a priori judgments, that is, material propositions that cannot be contradicted by any experience, the empiricist posits the forms of being as constant. Max Horkheimer

I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms. Manuel Puig

There are two kinds of characters in all fiction, the born and the synthetic. If the writer has to ask himself questions - is he tall, is he short? Rex Stout

Today, people struggle to find what's real. Everything has become so synthetic that a lot of people, all they want is to grasp onto hope. Bob Marley

If industrial man continues to multiply his numbers and expand his operations he will succeed in his apparent intention, to seal himself off from the natural and isolate himself within a synthetic prison of his own making. Edward Abbey

Close letter words and terms

synthesome synthespian synthetase synthetic air synthetic artificial ice synthetic biology