synthetic

Relating to, involving, or of the nature of synthesis.

Produced by synthesis, especially not of natural origin.

Prepared or made artificially.

Not natural or genuine; artificial or contrived.

Relating to or being a language, such as Latin or Russian, that uses inflectional affixes to express syntactic relationships.

Relating to or being a proposition that attributes to a subject a predicate not inherent in the subject and that does not result in a contradiction if negated.

Of or relating to a financial instrument or investment that consists entirely of derivatives, especially swap contracts.

A synthetic chemical compound or material.

In chem., noting a substance made by artificial means, in the laboratory, in contradistinction to one produced without human agency, as in vegetables and animals. Thus indigo is produced from certain plants and may also be made artificially, or synthetically, from naphthalene.