synthetic

Etymology
From, from ; Equivalent to (suffix formation of ).

Adjective

 * Of, or relating to synthesis.
 * 1)  Produced by synthesis instead of being isolated from a natural source (but may be identical to a product so obtained).
 * 2)  Produced by synthesis, thought to have the same effect as its natural counterpart, but chemically different from it.
 * 3) Artificial, not genuine.
 * 4)  Pertaining to the joining of bound morphemes in a word (compare ).
 * 5)  Of a language, having a grammar principally dependent on the use of bound morphemes to indicate syntactic relationships (compare ).
 * 1)  Of a language, having a grammar principally dependent on the use of bound morphemes to indicate syntactic relationships (compare ).

Usage notes

 * (Bio-)chemicals can be produced synthetically, but be chemically indistinguishable from to their counterparts found in nature. However, especially in medical contexts, synthetic is most often meant to denote molecules (active ingredients in drugs) that are chemically different from the natural substance on which they are based.
 * Folic acid is the synthetic form of vitamin B9 (L-5-methyltetrahydrofolate).

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: сінтэты́чны
 * Bulgarian: синтетичен
 * Catalan: sintètic
 * Czech:
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 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Greek:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: sintéiseach
 * Italian:
 * Polish:
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 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: синтѐтичан
 * Roman:
 * Tagalog: lagumlalangin
 * Ukrainian: синтети́чний


 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: сінтэты́чны
 * Catalan: sintètic
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Galician:
 * Greek:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: синтѐтичан
 * Roman:
 * Swahili: sintetiki
 * Tagalog: ginanggang
 * Ukrainian: синтети́чний


 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: сінтэты́чны
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: sintètic
 * Czech:, , strojený
 * Dutch:
 * Galician: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hindi:
 * Irish: tacar
 * Italian:
 * Maori: horihori, parau
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: syntetisk
 * Nynorsk: syntetisk
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: fuadain
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: у̀мјетан
 * Roman:
 * Spanish:
 * Tagalog: lagumlalangin
 * Ukrainian: синтети́чний


 * Armenian: ,
 * Belarusian: сінтэты́чны
 * Czech:
 * Galician:
 * Hungarian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Ukrainian: синтети́чний


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Noun

 * 1) A synthetic compound.