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adjective

1. Marked by unnaturalness, pretension, and often a slavish love of fads: artificial, factitious, plastic, unnatural. See honest/dishonest.
2. Made by human beings instead of nature: artificial, manmade, manufactured. See culture/nature.
3. Made to imitate something else: artificial, imitation, manmade, mock, simulated. Informal pretend. See real/imaginary.

adj

Definition: artificial
Antonyms: genuine, natural, real

A financial instrument that is created artificially by simulating another instrument with the combined features of a collection of other assets.

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For example, you can create a synthetic stock by purchasing a call option and simultaneously selling a put option on the same stock. The synthetic stock would have the same capital-gain potential as the underlying security.

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IN BRIEF: Made by people, artificial.

In an age of synthetic images and synthetic emotions, the chances of an accidental encounter with reality are remote indeed. — Serge Daney (1944-1992), French film critic.

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1. of, or pertaining to, synthesis.
2. (of a substance or material) chemically synthesized as opposed to prepared from recognizable natural materials. Such a product is identical chemically to that isolated from the natural source.

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Artificially produced.

• s. fibers — fibers such as nylon, Dacron and Teflon compete with the natural fibers in the weaving of fabrics. The rise in oil prices in the late 1970s made them less competitive. Synthetic fibers have revolutionized the manufacture and use of sutures in surgery.
• s. milk — see milk replacer.
• s. organic dyes — includes azo, acridine and rosaniline dyes. Used topically as weak antimicrobial agents.
• s. reaction — a metabolic reaction in which two substances are synthesized into one, e.g. detoxication in the liver.
• s. rubber — may contain tricresyl phosphate and cause intoxication of animal having access to litter made of it.

n

A substance that is produced by an artificial rather than a natural process or material.

For a list of words related to synthetic, see:

• Substances, Particles, and Atomic Architecture - synthetic: (adj) man-made, not occurring in nature; (n) such a substance
• Notions, Ideas, and Methods - synthetic: type of proposition or statement in which predicate adds, or synthesizes, knowledge
• Linguistics and Writing Systems - synthetic: (adj) designating language that uses affixes, rather than separate words, to express grammatical relationships
• Bad, False, Evil, Insincere, or Dishonest
• Falsehood, Pretense, and Exaggeration - synthetic: (adj) contrived as a substitute for the real thing

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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - syntetisk, kunstig, kunst-
n. - kunststof

Nederlands (Dutch)
synthetisch, van kunststof, gefabriceerd

Français (French)
adj. - synthétique, factice (péj)
n. - (fibre) synthétique, produit synthétique

Deutsch (German)
adj. - synthetisch, aus Kunststoff, Kunst-
n. - Synthetics, Kunststoff

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - συνθετικός, (μτφ.) πλαστός, τεχνητός, πλασματικός
n. - συνθετική ουσία, συστατικό

Italiano (Italian)
sintetico

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - sintético
n. - sintético (m)

Русский (Russian)
синтетический продукт, искусственный драгоценный камень

Español (Spanish)
adj. - sintético, artificial
n. - sintético, artificial

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - syntetisk
n. - plast

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
综合的, 假想的, 虚构的, 合成的, 人造的, 虚伪的, 合成物质

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 綜合的, 假想的, 虛構的, 合成的, 人造的, 虛偽的
n. - 合成物質

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 종합의, 합성의, 인조의
n. - 합성품, 모조품

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 総合の, 合成の, 偽の, 統合的な

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) تركيبي , اصطناعي (الاسم) المادة الاصطناعيه أو الطبيعيه المركبه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮מלאכותי, סינתטי, (משפט) ניתן לאימות ע"פ הניסיון (לוגיקה), מוסיפה לבסיס המילה תוספות והטיות במקום להשתמש במלים נפרדות (שפה), משתמשת בצירופי מלים פשוטות או בצורנים במלים מורכבות (שפה)‬
n. - ‮חומר מלאכותי‬

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