Adjective

(en adjective)

Of or pertaining to the process of selection.(rfex)

(of a person) choosy, fussy or discriminating when selecting.

He's very selective and spent hours in the store choosing a new shirt.

(chiefly, US, not comparable) Having the authority or capability to make a selection.

In the USA, military conscription is controlled by the Selective Service.

Adjective

(en adjective)

Of, or relating to synthesis.

(chemistry) Produced by synthesis instead of being isolated from a natural source (but may be identical to a product so obtained).

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= A new prescription , passage=As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.}}

Artificial, not genuine.

(grammar) Pertaining to the joining of bound morphemes in a word. Compare analytic.