artificial; made by combining chemical substances rather than being produced naturally by plants or animals 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
- 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
- false not natural:
false teeth 假牙 a false beard 假胡子
- man-made made by people; not natural:
man-made fibres such as nylon 尼龙之类的人造纤维
- fake made to look like something else; not real:
a fake-fur jacket 一件人造毛皮的短上衣
- 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。
- artificial/synthetic/man-made fabrics/fibres/materials/products
- artificial/synthetic/fake/imitation fur/leather
- artificial/synthetic/false/fake/imitation diamonds/pearls
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linguistics 语言学 (of languages 语言 using changes to the ends of words rather than separate words to show the functions of words in a sentence 综合（型）的
Word Originlate 17th cent.: from French synthétique or modern Latin syntheticus, from Greek sunthetikos, based on suntithenai ‘place together’.