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synthetic   (TTS Sound)

The noun synthetic has 1 sense

• synthetic, synthetic substance -- (a compound made artificially by chemical reactions)

The adj synthetic has 6 senses

• man-made, semisynthetic, synthetic -- (not of natural origin; prepared or made artificially; "man-made fibers"; "synthetic leather")


• 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)


• synthetic -- (systematic combining of root and modifying elements into single words)


• synthetic, synthetical -- (of a proposition whose truth value is determined by observation or facts; "`all men are arrogant' is a synthetic proposition")


• celluloid, synthetic -- (artificial as if portrayed in a film; "a novel with flat celluloid characters")


• synthetic -- (not genuine or natural; "counterfeit rhetoric that flourishes when passions are synthetic"- George Will)