synonymous

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/sɪˈnɒnɪməs/ (UK)

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/sɪˈnɒnɪməs/ (UK) · /sɪˈnɑnɪməs/ (US)

Definition of synonymous

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

(not-comparable)Having a similar (sometimes identical) meaning. (See Usage notes below)

“He was not far wrong, for nothing strikes me more forcibly than the universal tendency to grumble: conversation and complaint are synonymous terms.”
“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’.”

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adj

(not-comparable)Having a similar (sometimes identical) meaning. (See Usage notes below)

“He was not far wrong, for nothing strikes me more forcibly than the universal tendency to grumble: conversation and complaint are synonymous terms.”
“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’.”
(not-comparable)Of, or being a synonym.
(not-comparable)Such that both its forms yield the same sequenced protein.

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From Medieval Latin synōnymus, from Ancient Greek συνώνυμος (sunṓnumos). By surface analysis, synonym + -ous.

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