Synthetic
 

synthetic
adjective1.not of natural origin; prepared or made artificially; "man-made fibers"; "synthetic leather"[syn: man-made]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[ant: analytic]3.systematic combining of root and modifying elements into single words[ant: analytic]4.of a proposition whose truth value is determined by observation or facts; "'all men are arrogant' is a synthetic proposition"[ant: analytic]5.artificial as if portrayed in a film; "a novel with flat celluloid characters"[syn: celluloid]6.not genuine or natural; "counterfeit rhetoric that flourishes when passions are synthetic"- George Will
noun1.a compound made artificially by chemical reactions