synthetic

adj. of or pertaining to synthesis; artificial, man-made; not real, not genuine; of or pertaining to a language that uses inflectional affixes to express relationships

n. something made through synthesis, man-made product, artificial substance

Synthetic is usually used in the sense of synthesis, the combination of two or more parts, whether by design or by natural processes. It can also be used as in many stuff:Synthetic chemical or synthetic compound, produced by Chemical synthesisSynthetic fiber, a fiber not made from natural (animal, plant) materials Synthetic language, a language type using many complex word formsSynthetic options position, a concept in financeSynthetic proposition, a concept in philosophySynthesizer, a machine to create artificial sounds
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Noun
1. a compound made artificially by chemical reactions
(hypernym) compound, chemical compound
(hyponym) Plasticine
Adjective
1. not of natural origin; prepared or made artificially; "man-made fibers"; "synthetic leather"
(synonym) man-made, semisynthetic
(similar) artificial, unreal
(classification) chemistry, chemical science
2. 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
(synonym) synthetical
(antonym) analytic, analytical
3. systematic combining of root and modifying elements into single words
(antonym) analytic, uninflected
(similar) agglutinative, polysynthetic
(classification) linguistics
4. of a proposition whose truth value is determined by observation or facts; "`all men are arrogant' is a synthetic proposition"
(synonym) synthetical
(antonym) analytic, analytical
(see-also) a posteriori
(classification) logic
5. artificial as if portrayed in a film; "a novel with flat celluloid characters"
(synonym) celluloid
(similar) artificial, unreal
6. not genuine or natural; "counterfeit rhetoric that flourishes when passions are synthetic"- George Will
(similar) counterfeit, imitative

(a.)
Alt. of Synthetical
  

Compare with decomposition .Formation of a complex product from simpler reactants. For example, water can be synthesized from oxygen and hydrogen gas: H2(g) + ½ O2(g) H2O(). A substance manufactured by chemical synthesis is called synthetic.