Hyphenation of synthetic

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word synthetic? This word can be hyphenated and contains 3 syllables as shown below.

syn-thet-ic

Definitions of synthetic:

1.	A compound made artificially by chemical reactions
2.	Not of natural origin Prepared or made artificially Man-made fibers Synthetic leather
3.	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
4.	Systematic combining of root and modifying elements into single words
5.	Of a proposition whose truth value is determined by observation or facts `all men are arrogant' is a synthetic proposition
6.	Artificial as if portrayed in a film A novel with flat celluloid characters
7.	Not genuine or natural Counterfeit rhetoric that flourishes when passions are synthetic- George Will

Synonyms of synthetic:

adj	man-made, semisynthetic, artificial, unreal
adj	synthetic, synthetical
adj	synthetic, agglutinative, polysynthetic, inflectional
adj	synthetic, synthetical, a posteriori, inductive, logical
adj	celluloid, artificial, unreal
adj	counterfeit, imitative
noun	compound, chemical compound

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