Synthetic
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A synthetic compound.
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: 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). Artificial, not genuine. Pertaining to the joining of bound morphemes in a word. Compare analytic.
Example sentence: In view of the experience I had acquired in the field of chemical industry, certain Italian government and industrial bodies entrusted me in 1938 with the task of instituting research and development studies on the production of synthetic rubber in Italy.
Polysynthetic
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: said of a language, characterized by a prevalence of relatively long words containing a large number of morphemes. Typically, the morphemes are bound (i.e., they cannot stand alone as independent words). An example of a polysynthetic language is Ojibwe, where: