Well, no shit, son.
You are asking if something can be applied to an arbitrarily defined term when it doesn't fit those definitions.
Yes, if you change how you define it, it can fit.
Then again, so can a rock.
Life has a definition, and you can either accept that, or not.
If you accept that definition, then no, it isn't. If you don't like that definition, then it is entirely possible to redefine it, sure. But you are asking "is this life?" instead of "should the definition of life include this?"
Life has a definition, yes, and not just one.
Perhaps i didn't phrase my question in the best manner, but it should have been pretty clear from my posts that i
wasn't asking whether a synthetic organism qualifies as "living" from biological standpoint (what kind of question would that be?), and instead inquiring about the workable
abstract definition of life.