(of a substance) made by chemical synthesis, especially to imitate a natural product (物质)合成的;人造的 synthetic rubber. 合成橡胶。 ■(of an emotion or action) not genuine; insincere (感情,行动)不诚恳的;虚假的 their tears are a bit synthetic. 他们的眼泪有点虚伪。 ■(Logic)(of a proposition) having truth or falsity determinable by recourse to experience (逻)(命题)综合的。 比较analytic ■(Linguistics)(of a language) characterized by the use of inflections rather than word order to express grammatical structure (语言学)(语言)综合型的。 与analytic和agglutinative相对
noun
(常作 synthetics)a synthetic material or chemical, especially a textile fibre 合成物(尤指合成纤维)
派生 synthetical adjective synthetically adverb 语源
late 17th cent.: from French synthétique or modern Latin syntheticus, from Greek sunthetikos, based on suntithenai 'place together'