synonymous
adjUK /sɪˈnɒnɪməs/ · US /sɪˈnɑnɪməs/
Etymology From Medieval Latin synōnymus, from Ancient Greek συνώνυμος (sunṓnumos). By surface analysis, synonym + -ous.
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Construed with with Having a similar (sometimes identical) meaning. (See Usage notes below)
Particularly in semantics
- He was not far wrong, for nothing strikes me more forcibly than the universal tendency to grumble: conversation and complaint are synonymous terms.1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Chapter XXVII. Lady Marchmont to Sir Jasper Meredith.”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 243:
- Jews and Israel are not synonymous; nor is support for Palestine synonymous with anti-Semitism; nor is questioning the orthodoxy of the Republican party, which the majority of us do with relish, an insult to Jewry.2019 July 17, Talia Levin, “When Non-Jews Wield Anti-Semitism as Political Shield”, in GQ:
1 more example
- For much of the time that incels have self-described as such, their collective worldview has been synonymous with the ‘blackpill’.2023 January 23, Meg Roser, Charlotte Chalker and Tim Squirrell, “Spitting out the blackpill: Evaluating how incels present themselves in their own words on the incel Wiki”, in Institute for Strategic Dialogue, page 5:
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Construed with with Of, or being a synonym.
- Synonyms
- synonymal, synonymic, synonymical, homosemous, homosemic
- Antonyms
- antonymous, asynonymous, nonsynonymous, unsynonymous
- Derived terms
- asynonymous, nonsynonymous, nonsynonymously, parasynonymous, synonymously, synonymousness, unsynonymous
- Related terms
- synonym, synonymity, Wiktionary:Semantic relations