synthetic
adjective /sɪnˈθetɪk/
/sɪnˈθetɪk/
- artificial; made by combining chemical substances rather than being produced naturally by plants or animals
synonym man-made人造的;(人工)合成的 - synthetic drugs/fabrics
合成药物/织物 - shoes with synthetic soles
合成鞋底的鞋 - synthetic dyes
合成染料 - Even the hair is synthetic.
连头发都是合成的。
Synonyms artificialartificialTopics Physics and chemistryc1- synthetic
- false
- man-made
- fake
- imitation
- artificial made or produced to copy something natural; not real:
- artificial flowers
假花 - artificial light
人造光
- artificial flowers
- synthetic made by combining chemical substances rather than being produced naturally by plants or animals:
- synthetic drugs
合成药物 - shoes with synthetic soles
合成鞋底的鞋
- synthetic drugs
- false not natural:
- false teeth
假牙 - a false beard
假胡子
- false teeth
- man-made made by people; not natural:
- man-made fibres such as nylon
尼龙之类的人造纤维
- man-made fibres such as nylon
- fake made to look like something else; not real:
- a fake-fur jacket
一件人造毛皮的短上衣
- a fake-fur jacket
- imitation [only before noun] made to look like something else; not real:
- She would never wear imitation pearls.
她绝不会戴假珍珠。
- She would never wear imitation pearls.
- artificial/synthetic/man-made fabrics/fibres/materials/products
- artificial/synthetic/fake/imitation fur/leather
- artificial/synthetic/false/fake/imitation diamonds/pearls
- synthetic drugs/fabrics
- (linguistics
) (of languages语言学 ) using changes to the ends of words rather than separate words to show the functions of words in a sentence语言 compare agglutinative, analytic综合(型)的
词源late 17th cent.: from French synthétique or modern Latin syntheticus, from Greek sunthetikos, based on suntithenai ‘place together’.