syn·thet·ic 
(sĭn-thĕtĭk)
(sĭn-thĕtĭk)adj.
1. Relating to, involving, or of the nature of synthesis.
2. Chemistry Produced by synthesis, especially not of natural origin.
3.
a. Prepared or made artificially: synthetic leather.
b. Not natural or genuine; artificial or contrived: “counterfeit rhetoric that flourishes when passions are synthetic” (George F. Will).
4. Linguistics Relating to or being a language, such as Latin or Russian, that uses inflectional affixes to express syntactic relationships.
5. Logic & Philosophy Relating to or being a proposition that attributes to a subject a predicate not inherent in the subject, not following necessarily from logically true statements.
6. Of or relating to a financial instrument or investment that consists entirely of derivatives, especially swap contracts.
n.
A synthetic chemical compound or material.
[Greek sunthetikos, skilled in putting together, component, from sunthetos, combined, from suntithenai, to put together; see SYNTHESIS.]
syn·theti·cal·ly adv.
- highlighter
- high-low
- high-low-jack
- highly
- High Mass
- high-minded
- high-mindedly
- high-mindedness
- high muckamuck
- high muckety-muck
- high-necked
- highness
- high noon
- high-octane
- high off the hog
- high on/off the hog
- high on the hog
- high-pass filter
- high-pitched
- high place
- High Point
- high-power
- high-powered
- high-pressure
- high priest