synthetic
adjective
uk/sɪnˈθet.ɪk/us/sɪnˈθet̬.ɪk/syntheticadjective(NOT NATURAL)
Syntheticproductsare made fromartificialsubstances, oftencopyinganaturalproduct:
合成的，人造的syntheticfibres人造纤维
Thepatchpreventspregnancyusing the same synthetichormonesthat are used inbirthcontrolpills.
Thepricesof synthetic andnaturalrubberhave gone updramaticallyin the last fewyears.
made by humans
- artificialHer bouquet was made of artificial flowers.
- syntheticThe tyres are made with synthetic rubber.
- man-madeNylon is a man-made fibre.
- fakeHe was selling fake fur jackets.
disapproving
falseorartificial:
假的，做作的Shecriticizedthe syntheticcharmof TVhosts.她批评了电视节目主持人的矫揉造作。
Natural and artificial
- anti-natural
- artificial
- artificiality
- artificially
- biodynamic
- freshness
- God-given
- imitation
- inauthentic
- make no claim to besomethingidiom
- mock
- pure
- rawness
- refined
- simulated
- synthetically
- unnaturally
- unprocessed
- untamed
- untouched
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Industry & industrial processes
syntheticadjective(LANGUAGE)
languagespecialized
(of alanguage) usinginflections(=changesin oradditionsto theformof words)toexpressmeaningorgrammaticalstructure:
Thespeakersof ananalyticlanguageoften havedifficultyprocessingmorphologicallycomplexwords in a syntheticlanguage.
Compare
agglutinative
analytic
- In syntheticlanguages, therelationof words in asentenceisdeterminedbymeansofinflections.
- Hebrewis a morphologicallyhighlysyntheticlanguage.
- Syntheticlanguagessuch asLatin,Greek, orGermanhave alargeinventoryof inflectionalmorphemes.
- Sheaskedwhetheranalyticlanguagesareeasiertolearnthan syntheticones.
Linguistics: grammatical terms
- ablative
- apposition
- appositive
- appositively
- attributively
- concord
- countable
- demonstrative
- feminine
- intensifier
- nominative
- particle
- predicatively
- premodifier
- regularity
- singular
- stative
- syntactic
- syntax
- uncountable
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Linguistics: morphology & parts of words