synthetic

Adjective

• not genuine or natural
  • counterfeit rhetoric that flourishes when passions are synthetic- George Will
    

• artificial as if portrayed in a film
  • a novel with flat celluloid characters
    

• of a proposition whose truth value is determined by observation or facts
  • `all men are arrogant' is a synthetic proposition
    

• systematic combining of root and modifying elements into single words

• 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
    

• not of natural origin; prepared or made artificially
  • man-made fibers
    
  • synthetic leather
    

Noun

• a compound made artificially by chemical reactions

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  celluloid , synthetical , man-made , semisynthetic , synthetic substance
• Antonyms: 
  analytic , analytical , uninflected