All 3 Uses of
synthetic
in
1984 by Orwell
- In any time that he could accurately remember, there had never been quite enough to eat, one had never had socks or underclothes that were not full of holes, furniture had always been battered and rickety, rooms underheated, tube trains crowded, houses falling to pieces, bread dark-colored, tea a rarity, coffee filthy-tasting, cigarettes insufficient — nothing cheap and plentiful except synthetic gin.†
p. 59..9
- As he took her in his arms a wave of synthetic violets flooded his nostrils.†
p. 142..7 *
- It occurred to Winston that a synthetic face was perhaps incapable of changing its expression.†
p. 174..3
Definition:
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(synthetic) artificial (man-made rather than natural); or not genuine