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synthetic

English

  1. 🔊 of a proposition whose truth value is determined by observation or facts
    “`all men are arrogant' is a synthetic proposition”
  2. 🔊 systematic combining of root and modifying elements into single words
  3. 🔊 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”
  4. 🔊 not genuine or natural
    “counterfeit rhetoric that flourishes when passions are synthetic”
  5. 🔊 artificial as if portrayed in a film
    “a novel with flat celluloid characters”
  6. 🔊 not of natural origin
    “man-made fibers”
  7. 🔊 a compound made artificially by chemical reactions

Spanish

  1. 🔊 sintético synthetic

Similar words

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