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synthetic syn·thet·ic

Spelling: [sin-thet-ik]

IPA: /sɪnˈθɛt ɪk/

Synthetic is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 326 anagrams from letters in synthetic (cehinstty).

Definitions for synthetic

noun

1. something made by a synthetic, or chemical, process.
2. synthetics. substances or products made by chemical synthesis, as plastics or artificial fibers. the science or industry concerned with such products.

adjective

1. of, pertaining to, proceeding by, or involving synthesis (opposed to analytic).
2. noting or pertaining to compounds formed through a chemical process by human agency, as opposed to those of natural origin:
3. (of a language) characterized by a relatively widespread use of affixes, rather than separate words, to express syntactic relationships: Compare analytic (def 3), polysynthetic (def 1).
4. Also, synthetical. Logic. of or relating to a noncontradictory proposition in which the predicate is not included in, or entailed by, the subject.
5. not real or genuine; artificial; feigned:
6. Jewelry. noting a gem mineral manufactured so as to be physically, chemically, and optically identical with the mineral as found in nature. (not in technical use) noting a gem mineral manufactured and pigmented in imitation of a natural gemstone of that name.

Origin of synthetic

1690-1700; New Latin syntheticus Greek synthetikós, equivalent to synthet(ós) placed together, verbid of syntithénai to put together (syn- syn- + the-, stem of tithéna

Examples for synthetic

Genius is synthetic, elliptic, sudden, but always clear and sure.

He proves the importance of synthetic registration in peoples.

Scientists at the Scripps Research Institute produced the first living organism with synthetic bacteria this May.

One key ingredient of the stuff: Propylene glycol, a synthetic liquid that absorbs water.

The Illinois legislation does not include bioplastics like PHA, defining the banned microplastics to be of the synthetic type.

With more than 300 synthetic cannabinoids in use today, drug-testing companies are struggling to keep up with the new varieties.

But the arguments over drug testing may cease to matter if the synthetic drug epidemic continues.

Phillips had a logical mind and a capacity for synthetic induction.

synthetic foods there were for at least a hundred Martian days.

No mention now of the Eurasian exemplar, the synthetic "over-man."