Adjective
1. not of natural origin; prepared or made artificially;
"man-made fibers""synthetic leather"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.Welch3. systematic combining of root and modifying elements into single words
4. of a proposition whose truth value is determined by observation or facts;
"`all men are arrogant' is a synthetic proposition"5. artificial as if portrayed in a film;
"a novel with flat celluloid characters"6. not genuine or natural;
"counterfeit rhetoric that flourishes when passions are synthetic"- George Will