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synthetic

synthetic

2 5.1
Bringing ideas or parts together to make a single whole
  • adjective
  • /sɪnˈθɛtɪk/
  • Specialized
translation icon : sintético
  • The field of synthetic biology combines engineering principles with biological research to create new life forms.
  • a synthetic approach

Kant is introducing something that he thinks is incredibly important, the synthetic priori.

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Examples

  • It's more your synthetic knowledge and your way of bringing things together.

  • Hammond explains that the imagination has an interpretative function in cognition that is dynamic and synthetic, selecting and organizing experience into a meaningful whole.

    Academic text (1992)
  • Sort of a complete systematic, synthetic view.

  • So this was sort of the launch of some of the interest around the field of synthetic biology.

  • There are undoubtedly lots of societal challenges that synthetic biology could address.

  • So these guys, they made a synthetic biology circuit which can detect the RNA from Zika.

  • However, the synthetic models are often oversimplified, and the accuracy entirely depends on the designing methodology.

    Academic text (2016)
  • The result of this synthetic approach is a theology that is both ecclesiologically sophisticated and spiritually rich

    Academic text (2001)
  • Lastly, it renders possible the coordination of disparate fields of speculation in a more synthetic and comprehensive viewpoint.

    Academic text (2010)
  • Taking a broad, synthetic view, Armelagos, Barnes, and Lin (1998) detail three epidemiological revolutions in human history.

    Academic text (1998)

Synonyms

synthetical
vssynthetic
8.9

A way of combining separate parts to make a whole

is the identical meaning expressed in an alternative adjective form

Antonyms

11 5.7

Using careful thinking to break a problem into parts

Compounds

synthetic rubber
  • Specialized
1 4.0

A man-made stretchy material made with chemicals like natural rubber

synthetic fiber
  • Specialized
1 4.0

A fiber made using chemicals, not from plants or animals

1 7.2

A man-made drug like morphine that helps people addicted to heroin avoid withdrawal symptoms

synthetic substance
  • Specialized
1 4.1

People make it in a lab or factory rather than find it in nature

synthetic cubism
  • Specialized
9.6

A later painting style with simple shapes, bright colors, and glued paper pieces

synthetic language
  • Specialized
9.4

A language that shows grammar by adding endings or small parts to words

synthetic resin
  • Specialized
4.6

A man-made sticky material used to make plastics

Combining ideas from different fields to make a single clear whole

How Integrative

holistic
46 5.8
integrative
7 6.9
synthetic
  • Specialized
2 5.1
composite
27 5.4
combined
1.5
separate
829 2.1

Surface Forms

synthetic positive

Morphology

synthetic = synthesis (transparent) = synthesis + ic

The adjective meaning 'involving synthesis' is a direct adjectival formation from 'synthesis' with '-ic'.

Etymology

Synthetic meaning 'involving synthesis' comes from synthesis, or 'put together', so a synthetic approach brings separate parts or ideas together to make one whole.