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a compound made artificially by chemical reactions 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 agglutinative, inflectional 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 genuine or natural; "counterfeit rhetoric that flourishes when passions are synthetic"- George Will counterfeit artificial as if portrayed in a film; "a novel with flat celluloid characters" artificial not of natural origin; prepared or made artificially; "man-made fibers"; "synthetic leather" artificial |
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