synth

[sinth]

noun

1. Informal.,  synthesizer.

2. synthpop.

synth

/ sɪnθ /

noun

1. short for synthesizer

Example Sentences

But the production, which combines synth stabs and funk guitar like a fusion of the Jackson 5 and Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Call Me Maybe,” has a strutting sense of propulsion utterly absent elsewhere on the record, and Ms. Swift sings her ode to her fiancé’s anatomy with genuine joy.

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Honorary mention: If you prefer a tambourine to a synth, try “Lover” B-side “Paper Rings,” perhaps more suitable for kick-stepping than spinning but nonetheless another “Opalite” lookalike.

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Showcasing this album’s gentler side, “Wi$h Li$t,” which Swift said may be her personal favorite, is a tender tribute to her fiancé Travis Kelce, backed with ethereal synth sounds and soft vocalization from a clearly smitten showgirl.

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The album opens with “Hammer,” in which she sings, “Some days, I’m a woman / Some days, I’m a man” over a strobing synth lick; it’s a theme she revisits in “Man of the Year,” whose music video shows Lorde pulling off a white T-shirt then binding her breasts with strips of duct tape.

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Even Shallow, Gaga's Oscar-winning A Star Is Born ballad, opens with an unsettling synth pulse , as it soundtracks the show's climactic final act.

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