synonymous
Pronunciations (4)
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/sɪˈnɒnɪməs/
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/sɪˈnɑnɪməs/
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sɪˈnɒnɪməs
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- GB
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sɪˈnɑnɪməs
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- US
Adjective
Having a similar (sometimes identical) meaning. (See Usage notes below)
Usage- not-comparable
- construed with with
- Examples
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He was not far wrong, for nothing strikes me more forcibly than the universal tendency to grumble: conversation and complaint are synonymous terms.
More examples (1)
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.
For much of the time that incels have self-described as such, their collective worldview has been synonymous with the ‘blackpill’.
Of, or being a synonym.
Usage- not-comparable
- construed with with
Such that both its forms yield the same sequenced protein.
Usage- not-comparable
- of a SNP
Adjective
(of words) meaning the same or nearly the same
- Antonyms