synthetic
adjective
noun
- substances or products made by chemical synthesis, as plastics or artificial fibers.
- the science or industry concerned with such products.
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Related Words for synthetic
manufactured, fabricated, ersatz, phony, makeshift, fake, plastic, mock, counterfeit, factitious, hokey, made, unnatural, false, constructedExamples from the Web for synthetic
Contemporary Examples of synthetic
One key ingredient of the stuff: Propylene glycol, a synthetic liquid that absorbs water.
The Illinois legislation does not include bioplastics like PHA, defining the banned microplastics to be of the synthetic type.
But the arguments over drug testing may cease to matter if the synthetic drug epidemic continues.
With more than 300 synthetic cannabinoids in use today, drug-testing companies are struggling to keep up with the new varieties.
Scientists at the Scripps Research Institute produced the first living organism with synthetic bacteria this May.
Historical Examples of synthetic
Synthetic foods there were for at least a hundred Martian days.
Genius is synthetic, elliptic, sudden, but always clear and sure.
The Goat-gland TransplantationSydney B. Flower
Phillips had a logical mind and a capacity for synthetic induction.
The Island MysteryGeorge A. Birmingham
No mention now of the Eurasian exemplar, the synthetic "over-man."
Dreamers of the GhettoI. Zangwill
He proves the importance of synthetic registration in peoples.
Adventures in the ArtsMarsden Hartley