synthetically

adverb

syn·​thet·​i·​cal·​ly |ə̇k(ə)lē 

|ēk-, 

-li

: in a synthetic manner

what followed is so confused in my memory, so transposed and foreshortened, that I can only describe it synthetically

—Christopher Isherwood

: by synthetic means or methods

producing drugs synthetically

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