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We found 38 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word synthetic:
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General dictionaries General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. synthetic: V2 Vocabulary Building Dictionary [home, info]
  2. synthetic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  3. synthetic: Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition [home, info]
  4. synthetic: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
  5. Synthetic, synthetic: Wordnik [home, info]
  6. synthetic: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
  7. Synthetic: Wiktionary [home, info]
  8. synthetic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  9. synthetic: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  10. synthetic: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  11. synthetic: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  12. synthetic: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  13. synthetic: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
  14. Synthetic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
  15. Synthetic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  16. synthetic: Rhymezone [home, info]
  17. synthetic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  18. synthetic: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  19. synthetic: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  20. synthetic: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  21. synthetic: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  22. synthetic: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  23. synthetic: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]

Art dictionaries Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. synthetic: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology [home, info]
  2. synthetic: Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names [home, info]

Business dictionaries Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Synthetic: AMEX Dictionary of Financial Risk Management [home, info]
  2. Synthetic: Investopedia [home, info]
  3. Synthetic: Taxopedia [home, info]
  4. synthetic: Legal dictionary [home, info]
  5. Synthetic: Financial dictionary [home, info]

Computing dictionaries Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. synthetic: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine dictionaries Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. synthetic: online medical dictionary [home, info]
  2. synthetic: Dictionary of Cancer Terms [home, info]
  3. synthetic: Glossary of HIV/AIDS Related Terms [home, info]
  4. synthetic: Medical dictionary [home, info]

Science dictionaries Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. synthetic: General Chemistry Online [home, info]
  2. synthetic: FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy [home, info]

Tech dictionaries Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Synthetic: Glossary for the Modern Soap Maker [home, info]

Quick definitions (synthetic)

noun:  a compound made artificially by chemical reactions
adjective:  of a proposition whose truth value is determined by observation or facts ("`all men are arrogant' is a synthetic proposition")
adjective:  systematic combining of root and modifying elements into single words
adjective:  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")
adjective:  not genuine or natural ("Counterfeit rhetoric that flourishes when passions are synthetic- George Will")
adjective:  artificial as if portrayed in a film
adjective:  not of natural origin; prepared or made artificially ("Synthetic leather")

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