Both Uses of
synthetic
in
Immortal in Death
- chapter five Leonardo was sprawled in the middle of Mavis's living room floor, where he had fallen hours before in a drunken stupor brought on by a full bottle of synthetic whiskey and a boatload of self-pity.†
Chpt 5 *
- The combination of Immortality and, as far as we can determine by what's missing, doses of morphine and synthetic Zeus.†
Chpt 19
Definitions:
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(1)
(synthetic) artificial (man-made rather than natural); or not genuine
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
A comprehensive dictionary will have more specialized definitions of synthetic which are used in such fields as Philosophy and Linguistics.