1.a compound made artificially by chemical reactions
2.not of natural origin; prepared or made artificially;
man-made fibers
3.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
4.systematic combining of root and modifying elements into single words
5.of a proposition whose truth value is determined by observation or facts;
`all men are arrogant' is a synthetic proposition
6.artificial as if portrayed in a film;
a novel with flat celluloid characters
7.not genuine or natural;
counterfeit rhetoric that flourishes when passions are synthetic- George Will