synthetic

not of natural origin; prepared or made artificially

• “man-made fibers”
• “synthetic leather”

involving or of the nature of synthesis (combining separate elements to form a coherent whole) as opposed to analysis

• “limnology is essentially a synthetic science composed of elements...that extend well beyond the limits of biology” P.S.Welch

systematic combining of root and modifying elements into single words

of a proposition whose truth value is determined by observation or facts

• “all men are arrogant”

artificial as if portrayed in a film

• “a novel with flat celluloid characters”

not genuine or natural

• “counterfeit rhetoric that flourishes when passions are synthetic” George Will

a compound made artificially by chemical reactions