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Pronunciation
- /sɪˈnɑnɪməs/ (US)
- (US) audio
- /sɪˈnɒnɪməs/ (UK)
Etymology
From Medieval Latin synōnymus, from Ancient Greek συνώνυμος (sunṓnumos). By surface analysis, synonym + -ous.
Meanings
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(construed with with, not-comparable, qualifier:particularly in semantics) Having a similar (sometimes identical) meaning. (See Usage notes below)
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: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:For much of the time that incels have self-described as such, their collective worldview has been synonymous with the ‘blackpill’.
2023 January 14, 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:
- (construed with with, not-comparable) Of, or being a synonym.
- (not-comparable, of a SNP) Such that both its forms yield the same sequenced protein.
Antonyms
nonsynonymous · unsynonymous · asynonymous · nonsynonymous (antonym(s) of “genetics”) · antonymous
Deriveds
unsynonymous · parasynonymous · nonsynonymous · asynonymous · synonymousness · nonsynonymously · synonymously
Relateds
synonymity · Wiktionary:Semantic relations · synonym
Synonyms
homosemous (narrower sense, having identical meaning) · synonymic · homosemic (narrower sense, having identical meaning) · synonymal · synonymical
Translations (88)
ru синоними́ческий (having an identical meaning) · ru синоними́чный (having an identical meaning) · fy lykbetsjuttend (having an identical meaning) · fi synonyyminen (having a similar meaning) · eo sinonima (having an identical meaning) · lv sinonīmisks (having a similar meaning) · fr synonyme (genetics: with both forms yielding the same protein) · pt sinónimo (genetics: with both forms yielding the same protein) · cy cyfystyr (having an identical meaning) · fi samanmerkityksinen (having a similar meaning) · fi synonyyminen (having an identical meaning) · pt sinónimo (of, or being a synonym) · uk синонімі́чний (having an identical meaning) · es sinónimo (of, or being a synonym) · sv synonym (of, or being a synonym) · kk синонимдес (having an identical meaning) · de synonym (having a similar meaning) · vo otsinifavödik (of, or being a synonym) · vo leigasinifik (having a similar meaning) · sv synonym (having a similar meaning) · pl bliskoznaczny (having an identical meaning) · vo leigasinifavödik (of, or being a synonym) · pt sinônimo (having a similar meaning) · hi समानार्थक (having a similar meaning) · de bedeutungsgleich (having an identical meaning) · hu szinonim (having a similar meaning) · ka სინონიმური (of, or being a synonym) · pl bliskoznaczny (having a similar meaning) · cs souznačný (having a similar meaning) · nl synoniem (of, or being a synonym) · hu rokon értelmű (having a similar meaning) · ru синоними́чный (having a similar meaning) · nl evenwoordig (of, or being a synonym) · pl synonimiczny (having an identical meaning) · grc συνώνυμος (having an identical meaning) · lv sinonīmisks (of, or being a synonym) · pt sinônimo (of, or being a synonym) · ga comhchiallach (having an identical meaning) · la synonymos (having an identical meaning) · sh istoznačan (having a similar meaning) · fi samanmerkityksinen (having an identical meaning) · cs synonymní (having a similar meaning) · bg синонимен (of, or being a synonym) · de synonym (of, or being a synonym) · ca sinònim (having a similar meaning) · cs synonymní (having an identical meaning) · et sünonüümne (of, or being a synonym) · cs souznačný (having an identical meaning) · sh sinoniman (having a similar meaning) · de gleichbedeutend (having an identical meaning) · pl synonimiczny (having a similar meaning) · fi synonyyminen (of, or being a synonym) · pt sinônimo (having an identical meaning) · nl synoniem (having a similar meaning) · kk синонимдік (of, or being a synonym) · it sinonimo (genetics: with both forms yielding the same protein) · br heñvelster (having an identical meaning) · la synonymus (having an identical meaning) · sv liktydig (having an identical meaning) · hi समानार्थक (having an identical meaning) · ka სინონიმური (having an identical meaning) · ka სინონიმური (having a similar meaning) · uk синонімі́чний (having a similar meaning) · pt sinónimo (having an identical meaning) · de sinnverwandt (having a similar meaning) · lv sinonīms (having an identical meaning) · de synonym (having an identical meaning) · pt sinónimo (having a similar meaning) · gl sinónimo (having a similar meaning) · lv sinonīms (of, or being a synonym) · it sinonimo (having a similar meaning) · es sinónimo (genetics: with both forms yielding the same protein) · hi समानार्थक (of, or being a synonym) · pl równoznaczny (having an identical meaning) · de bedeutungsähnlich (having a similar meaning) · es sinónimo (having an identical meaning) · gl sinónimo (having an identical meaning) · lv sinonīms (having a similar meaning) · nl gelijkbetekenend (having an identical meaning) · gl sinónimo (of, or being a synonym) · pt sinônimo (genetics: with both forms yielding the same protein) · bg еднозначен (having an identical meaning) · de synonymisch (having an identical meaning) · et sünonüümne (having a similar meaning) · es sinónimo (having a similar meaning) · vo otsinifik (having a similar meaning) · lv sinonīmisks (having an identical meaning) · ca sinònim (having an identical meaning)