how to pronounce synthetic

/sɪnˈθɛt.ɪk/

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synthetic is pronounced in three syllables

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An example use of synthetic in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… a blue synthetic thread so part of the …”

meanings of synthetic

adjective:

  1. Pertaining to the joining of bound morphemes in a word (compare analytic).
  2. Of a language, having a grammar principally dependent on the use of bound morphemes to indicate syntactic relationships (compare analytic).
  3. Of, or relating to synthesis.
  4. Artificial, not genuine,.
  5. Produced by synthesis instead of being isolated from a natural source (but may be identical to a product so obtained).

noun:

  1. A synthetic compound.

synthetic frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word synthetic occurs in english on average 7.5 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics synthetic can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that synthetic can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;

2) education, science, and technology;

words with pronunciation similar to synthetic

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