Usually means: Made by chemical synthesis, artificial.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. synthetic: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. synthetic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. synthetic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. synthetic: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Synthetic, synthetic: Wordnik
  6. synthetic: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. synthetic: Wiktionary
  8. synthetic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. synthetic: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. synthetic: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. synthetic: Dictionary.com
  12. synthetic: Rhymezone
  13. synthetic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. synthetic: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. synthetic: Free Dictionary
  16. synthetic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. synthetic: Dictionary/thesaurus
  18. synthetic: Vocabulary.com
  19. Synthetic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  20. synthetic: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  21. Synthetic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. synthetic: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. synthetic: Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Synthetic: Investopedia
  2. synthetic: Legal dictionary
  3. Synthetic: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. synthetic: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. synthetic: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  3. Glossary of HIV/AIDS Related Terms (No longer online)
  4. synthetic: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. General Chemistry Online (No longer online)
  2. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary for the Modern Soap Maker (No longer online)

(Note: See synthetically as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Of, or relating to synthesis.
adjective:  (chemistry) Produced by synthesis instead of being isolated from a natural source (but may be identical to a product so obtained).
adjective:  (medicine) Produced by synthesis, thought to have the same effect as its natural counterpart, but chemically different from it.
adjective:  Artificial, not genuine.
adjective:  (grammar) Pertaining to the joining of bound morphemes in a word (compare analytic).
adjective:  (linguistics) Of a language, having a grammar principally dependent on the use of bound morphemes to indicate syntactic relationships (compare analytic).
noun:  A synthetic compound.

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