Word.ws English Dictionary

retrosynthesize

retrosynthesize verb: to produce by retrosynthesis.

Verb

retrosynthesize (third-person singular simple present retrosynthesizes, present participle retrosynthesizing, simple past and past participle retrosynthesized)

  1. (transitive) To produce by retrosynthesis.

Forms of retrosynthesize

third-person singular presentretrosynthesizes
present participleretrosynthesizing
past participleretrosynthesized
pastretrosynthesized

Questions about retrosynthesize

What does retrosynthesize mean?
Retrosynthesize means to produce by retrosynthesis.
What part of speech is retrosynthesize?
Retrosynthesize is a verb.
What is the past tense of retrosynthesize?
The past tense of retrosynthesize is retrosynthesized.

Words near retrosynthesize in the dictionary

  1. retrosternally
  2. retrostyled
  3. retrostyloid
  4. retrosyntheses
  5. retrosynthesis
  6. retrosynthesize
  7. retrosynthesized
  8. retrosynthesizes
  9. retrosynthesizing
  10. retrosynthetic
  11. retrosynthetically

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: retrosynthesize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “retrosynthesize.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/retrosynthesize. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.