synthetic : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: synthetic	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
synthetic adj not of natural origin; prepared or made artificially; "man-made fibers"; "synthetic leather" Synonym(s): man-made, semisynthetic, synthetic 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(s): synthetic, synthetical Antonym(s): analytic, analytical systematic combining of root and modifying elements into single words Antonym(s): analytic, uninflected of a proposition whose truth value is determined by observation or facts; "`all men are arrogant' is a synthetic proposition" Synonym(s): synthetic, synthetical Antonym(s): analytic, analytical artificial as if portrayed in a film; "a novel with flat celluloid characters" Synonym(s): celluloid, synthetic not genuine or natural; "counterfeit rhetoric that flourishes when passions are synthetic"- George Will n a compound made artificially by chemical reactions [syn: synthetic, synthetic substance]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Synthetic \Synthet"ic\, Synthetical \Synthet"ical\, a. [Gr. [?]: cf. F. synth[82]tique.] 1. Of or pertaining to synthesis; consisting in synthesis or composition; as, the synthetic* method of reasoning, as opposed to analytical. Philosophers hasten too much from the analytic to the synthetic method; that is, they draw general conclusions from too small a number of particular observations and experiments. --Bolingbroke. 2. (Chem.) Artificial. Cf. {Synthesis}, 2. 3. (Zo[94]l.) Comprising within itself structural or other characters which are usually found only in two or more diverse groups; -- said of species, genera, and higher groups. See the Note under {Comprehensive}, 3. {Synthetic}, [or] {Synthetical language}, an inflectional language, or one characterized by grammatical endings; -- opposed to {analytic language}. --R. Morris.