synthetic
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
synthetic /sɪnˈθɛtɪk/
▶adjective
- 1 made by chemical synthesis, especially to imitate a natural product.
■ not genuine; unnatural.
- 2 Logic having truth or falsity determinable by recourse to experience. Compare with analytic.
- 3 Linguistics (of a language) tending to use inflections rather than word order to express grammatical structure. Contrasted with analytic.
– derivatives
synthetical adjective,
synthetically adverb.
synthetical adjective,
synthetically adverb.
– origin C17: from Fr. synthétique or mod. L. syntheticus, from Gk sunthetikos, based on suntithenai ‘place together’.
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acetone
- acrylic
- acrylic acid
- alkyd
- allopurinol
- amoxicillin
- Ampakine
- amphetamine
- ampicillin
- amyl nitrate
- amyl nitrite
- anabolic steroid
- analytic
- arsphenamine
- aspirin
- atrazine
- azo dye
- barbituric acid
- biomaterial
- biomimetic
- bisphenol A
- Bitrex
- butadiene
- butyl rubber
- caprolactam
- carbamazepine
- carbaryl
- cephalosporin
- CFC
- chlordane
- chlorhexidine
- chloroquine
- chlorpromazine
- clenbuterol
- clomiphene
- complementary DNA
- crimplene
- cyclamate
- cyclophosphamide
- daunorubicin
- DDT
- dendrimer
- designer drug
- dexamethasone
- diazonium
- disulfiram
- Dralon
- dye
- ecstasy
- elastomer
