Syn-thĕt'ic or Syn-thĕt'ic-al, a.

a. [Fr. synthétique, Gr. συνθετικός.] Pertaining to synthesis; consisting in synthesis or composition; as, the synthetic method of reasoning, as opposed to the analytical.

Philosophers hasten too much from the analytic to the synthetic method; that is, they draw general conclusions from too small a number of particular observations and experiments. Bolingbroke.