Synthetic may refer to:

• Synthetic biology
• Synthetic chemical or compound, produced by the process of chemical synthesis
• Synthetic elements, chemical elements that are not naturally found on Earth and therefore have to be created in experiments
• Synthetic organic compounds synthetic chemical compounds based on carbon (organic compounds).
• Synthetic peptide
• Synthetic population
• Synthetic population (biology)

• Synthetic fuel
• Synthetic oil
• Synthetic marijuana
• Synthetic diamond
• Synthetic fibers, cloth or other material made from other substances than natural (animal, plant) materials

• Synthetic position, a concept in finance
• Synthetic-aperture radar, a type or radar
• Analytic–synthetic distinction, in philosophy
• Synthetic language in linguistics, inflected or agglutinative languages
• Synthetic intelligence a term emphasizing that true intelligence expressed by computing machines is not an imitation or "artificial."
• Synthetic or constructed language, such as Esperanto
• Synthetic music, produced by a synthesizer, a machine to create artificial sound and music
• Synthetic chord in music theory
• Synthetic person or legal personality, characteristic of a non-human entity regarded by law as having the status of a person
• Synthetic data, are any data applicable to a given situation that are not obtained by direct measurement or from live system as described in synthetic data; terminology used in testing of software applications
• Synthetic monitoring, (also known as active monitoring) is website monitoring that is done using a web browser emulation or scripted recordings of web transactions
• Synthetic setae, emulate the anatomical processes found on various animals, including the feet of basilisk lizards and the toes of geckos
• "Synthetic", a song by Spineshank from The Height of Callousness, 2000

• Artificial (disambiguation)
• Man-made (disambiguation)
• Pharmaceutical drug
• Plastic
• Synthetic phonics
• Synthetic rubber