synthetic
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4.4
- adjective
- /sɪnˈθɛtɪk/
- She decided to purchase the synthetic fabric for her dress, as it was more affordable than natural fibers.
- synthetic material
- synthetic compound
- synthetic chemicals
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Watch on YouTubeHe's also going to call this a synthetic presentation.
- He's also going to call this a synthetic presentation.
- And of course, this resin is synthetic and fully reversible.
- I've since called it synthetic fear like it was.
- Just like this human thought that natural is good and synthetic is bad.
- First it was synthetic identities, then it was running ads.
- You want to watch out for, for any clothing that has a synthetic chemical additive.
- And I'll use synthetic media deepfakes, call it what you will.
- Instead we have a synthetic presentation which doesn't do justice to them.
- And so I'm not one of these people that think synthetic actors will replace all acting jobs.
- Climate scientists who say we'd be better off cooking with synthetic oil.
- So what I said was that I didn't think synthetic artisan brushes are worth the cost, not natural.
- There are people that can try and do that, but what they achieve is just a synthetic persona.
- Like I love how fresh roses smell, but the synthetic perfumey rose.
Examples
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Last on my purchase list was the synthetic suede.
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Not bad at all for a synthetic stone.
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It's a new synthetic drug.
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Like I love how fresh roses smell, but the synthetic perfumey rose.
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You want to watch out for, for any clothing that has a synthetic chemical additive.
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Listeners in this experiment heard the same 20 synthetic female voice samples used in Experiment 1.
Academic text (2011) -
Echo speech synthesizer: The Echo adds synthetic speech to a wide variety of specially designed software.
Academic text (1992) -
I prefer to lose myself in the dizzy food coma of synthetic cheese and impossible meats.
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It's just like synthetic bristles and they're quite short little bristles.
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The card room fire burned on its synthetic logs, the gas cylinder faintly whistling.
Fiction book (1998)
Synonyms
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3.6
Made by people rather than by nature, often as a copy of something natural
68
3.4
Made by people rather than happening in nature
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7.5
Not real but made to look like something real to copy it
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4.4
Made to look like the real thing for practice
Antonyms
Compounds
- NSFW
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7.2
A man-made drug like morphine that helps people addicted to heroin avoid withdrawal symptoms
- Specialized
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4.0
A man-made stretchy material made with chemicals like natural rubber
- Specialized
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4.1
People make it in a lab or factory rather than find it in nature
- Specialized
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9.6
A later painting style with simple shapes, bright colors, and glued paper pieces
- Specialized
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9.4
A language that shows grammar by adding endings or small parts to words
How Natural
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Synthetic comes from the word synthesis, which means 'put together'. So a synthetic thing is made by putting parts together in a factory or lab, not formed naturally.