synthetic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From French synthétique, from Ancient Greek συνθετικός (sunthetikós); Equivalent to synthesis + -ic (suffix formation of -tic).
Base: synthesis
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: more synthetic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most synthetic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: synthetics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, or relating to synthesis.
pos: adj
gloss: Produced by synthesis instead of being isolated from a natural source (but may be identical to a product so obtained).
pos: adj
examples: As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.
gloss: Produced by synthesis, thought to have the same effect as its natural counterpart, but chemically different from it.
pos: adj
gloss: Artificial, not genuine.
pos: adj
gloss: Pertaining to the joining of bound morphemes in a word (compare analytic).
pos: adj
gloss: Of a language, having a grammar principally dependent on the use of bound morphemes to indicate syntactic relationships.
pos: adj
gloss: A synthetic compound.
pos: noun
examples: Only plastics and synthetics that cannot be recycled will end up in landfills, he said.
Derived words: biosynthetic
chemosynthetic
ecosynthetic
electrosynthetic
geosynthetic
hemisynthetic
heterosynthetic
mechanosynthetic
metasynthetic
mutasynthetic
narcosynthetic
nonsynthetic
nucleosynthetic
oligosynthetic
osteosynthetic
parasynthetic
phosphosynthetic
photoelectrosynthetic
photosynthetic
polysynthetic
postsynthetic
presynthetic
proteosynthetic
psychosynthetic
pyrosynthetic
radiosynthetic
retrosynthetic
sDMARD
semisynthetic
simvastatin
synfuel
synthespian
synthetic air
synthetical
synthetically
synthetic biology
synthetic division
synthetic element
synthetic fiber
synthetic fibre
synthetic future
synthetic geometry
synthetic ice
synthetic ice skate
synthetic intelligence
syntheticism
syntheticity
synthetic lethality
synthetic meat
synthetic paper
synthetic philosophy
synthetic phonics
synthetic theory
synthfuel
syntocinon
synzyme
thermosynthetic
tomosynthetic
unsynthetic
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: սինթետիկ
roman: sintʻetik
lang: Belarusian
word: сінтэты́чны
roman: sintetýčny
lang: Catalan
word: sintètic
lang: Czech
word: syntetický
lang: Dutch
word: synthetisch
lang: Galician
word: sintético
lang: German
word: synthetisch
lang: Greek
word: συνθετικός
roman: synthetikós
lang: Hindi
word: संश्लिष्ट
roman: sañśliṣṭ
lang: Hungarian
word: szintetikus
lang: Indonesian
word: sintetis
lang: Italian
word: sintetico
lang: Kazakh
word: синтездік
roman: sintezdık
lang: Kazakh
word: синтетикалық
roman: sintetikalyq
lang: Polish
word: syntetyczny
lang: Portuguese
word: sintético
lang: Russian
word: синтети́ческий
roman: sintɛtíčeskij
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: синтѐтичан
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: sintètičan
lang: Swahili
word: sintetiki
lang: Swedish
word: syntetiserad
lang: Tagalog
word: ginanggang
lang: Ukrainian
word: синтети́чний
roman: syntetýčnyj