synthetic
/sɪnˈθɛtɪk/ adjective C1- Of, or relating to synthesis.
- Produced by synthesis instead of being isolated from a natural source (but may be identical to a product so obtained).
- Produced by synthesis, thought to have the same effect as its natural counterpart, but chemically different from it.
- Of a smell, taste, or other sensory quality: artificial; perceptible as an unnatural taste.
- Artificial, not genuine.
- Pertaining to the joining of bound morphemes in a word (compare analytic).
- Of a language, having a grammar principally dependent on the use of bound morphemes to indicate syntactic relationships.
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Furthermore, synthetic fabrics like polyester can take hundreds of years to fully break down.
Choosing to navigate by the contours of the land rather than a synthetic voice might just reawaken our dormant spatial instincts.
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