Choose the synonym for spot
- thesaurus
- synthetic
synthetic
synonyms for synthetic
- fabricated
- manufactured
- counterfeit
- ersatz
- fake
- makeshift
- mock
- phony
- plastic
- constructed
- factitious
- false
- hokey
- made
- unnatural
See also synonyms for: synthetically
antonyms for synthetic
Most relevant
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
How to use synthetic in a sentence
Another client is an Ohio-based manufacturer of cotton swabs that is replacing the cotton with a synthetic equivalent in order to make nasal testing swabs uncontaminated by the plant fiber’s DNA.
The team hopes their new cotton plants might eventually be grown widely and made into clothes, helping to displace the toxic dyes and synthetic materials used by the fashion industry.
Scientists Gene-Hack Cotton Plants to Make Them Every Color of the Rainbow | Jason Dorrier | August 11, 2020 | Singularity HubAll he needed was a long, two-dimensional chain—natural or synthetic—and the chain should fold itself automatically, similar to how it folds into the double helix inside our bodies.
How Fake Viruses Can Help Us Make the Best Possible Vaccines | Shelly Fan | July 7, 2020 | Singularity Hub
Because the smell was completely synthetic, though, researchers could mess with it.
How to make a mouse smell a smell that doesn’t actually exist | Laura Sanders | June 18, 2020 | Science NewsThe fully synthetic nature of the Arkansas team’s technology could thus have a leg up on biologically-based approaches.
Artificial Kidneys Are a Step Closer With This New Tech | Vanessa Bates Ramirez | June 3, 2020 | Singularity HubOne key ingredient of the stuff: Propylene glycol, a synthetic liquid that absorbs water.
Europeans Recall Fireball Whiskey Over a Sweetener Also Used in Antifreeze | Tim Mak | October 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe Illinois legislation does not include bioplastics like PHA, defining the banned microplastics to be of the synthetic type.
But the arguments over drug testing may cease to matter if the synthetic drug epidemic continues.
With more than 300 synthetic cannabinoids in use today, drug-testing companies are struggling to keep up with the new varieties.
A dangerous synthetic drug trend is fueling an epidemic among American youth.
Nearly all the translating words given in this section so far are synthetic.
Assimilative Memory | Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)Drapes of velvety synthetic, dyed the deep green that Martian colonists like, covered the walls.
Fee of the Frontier | Horace Brown FyfeIf you want to make a synthetic sapphire, you start with a seed sapphire, and the artificial process builds up on that.
Nine Men in Time | Noel Miller LoomisApproximately two-thirds of such chemical employees are found in the synthetic fiber field.
Hallowed Heritage: The Life of Virginia | Dorothy M. TorpeyVirginia now has approximately 30% of the total employees in the United States engaged in synthetic fibers.
Hallowed Heritage: The Life of Virginia | Dorothy M. Torpey
Synonym of the Day
Browse