synthetic
adjectiveRelating to, involving, or of the nature of synthesis.
adjectiveProduced by synthesis, especially not of natural origin.
adjectivePrepared or made artificially.
adjectiveNot natural or genuine; artificial or contrived.
adjectiveRelating to or being a language, such as Latin or Russian, that uses inflectional affixes to express syntactic relationships.
adjectiveRelating to or being a proposition that attributes to a subject a predicate not inherent in the subject and that does not result in a contradiction if negated.
adjectiveOf or relating to a financial instrument or investment that consists entirely of derivatives, especially swap contracts.
nounA synthetic chemical compound or material.
In chem., noting a substance made by artificial means, in the laboratory, in contradistinction to one produced without human agency, as in vegetables and animals. Thus indigo is produced from certain plants and may also be made artificially, or synthetically, from naphthalene.