The invention provides a method for synthesizing m-diethylaminophenol. The method comprises the following steps: mixing potassium hydroxide and magnesium oxide, and calcining at 700-800 DEG C to obtain a solid super base catalyst; adding sodium amide and the solid super base catalyst into diethylamine, stirring, keeping the temperature at 3-8 DEG C, dropwise adding o-chlorophenol within 20 minutes, stirring for 10-20 minutes after dropwise adding is finished, starting ultrasonic oscillation, heating, carrying out reflux reaction for 10-30 minutes, carrying out reduced pressure rotary evaporation to recover diethylamine, adding xylene, stirring, cooling to 5 DEG C or below, and adding water to quench the catalyst; and adjusting the pH value of a water layer to be neutral or weakly acidic, and recovering xylene to obtain the m-diethylaminophenol finished product. The method disclosed by the invention not only is short in time and high in efficiency, but also does not use expensive m-aminophenol raw materials, so that the problem of troublesome post-treatment is solved; meanwhile, potential safety hazards caused by using unsafe catalysts can be avoided, so that m-diethylaminophenol production is safer, more economical and more efficient, and industrialization is better facilitated.