synergistic

Meanings

adjectivesynergistic (comparative more synergistic, superlative most synergistic)

Of or pertaining to synergy or synergism; synergic; co-operative, working together, interacting, mutually stimulating.
Farber and Lasker struck up a synergistic partnership that would stretch over decades.
2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 115

adjectiveused especially of drugs or muscles that work together so the total effect is greater than the sum of the two (or more)

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adjectiveworking together; used especially of groups, as subsidiaries of a corporation, cooperating for an enhanced effect

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Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Chinese Mandarin 協同的 /协同的, 協作的 /协作的

Finnish synerginen, synergistinen

French synergique

German synergetisch

Italian sinergico

Polish synergistyczny

Swedish synergistisk

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