Usually means: Artificially created, mimicking natural substances.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word synthetics:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. synthetics: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. synthetics: Merriam-Webster
  3. synthetics: Collins English Dictionary
  4. synthetics: Vocabulary.com
  5. Synthetics, synthetics: Wordnik
  6. synthetics: Wiktionary
  7. synthetics: Dictionary.com

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Synthetics: bizterms.net
  3. Synthetics: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  4. Synthetics: Financial dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. synthetics: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

(Note: See synthetic as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Of, or relating to synthesis.
adjective:  (chemistry) Produced by synthesis instead of being isolated from a natural source (but may be identical to a product so obtained).
adjective:  (medicine) Produced by synthesis, thought to have the same effect as its natural counterpart, but chemically different from it.
adjective:  Artificial, not genuine.
adjective:  (grammar) Pertaining to the joining of bound morphemes in a word (compare analytic).
adjective:  (linguistics) Of a language, having a grammar principally dependent on the use of bound morphemes to indicate syntactic relationships (compare analytic).
noun:  A synthetic compound.
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