ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Heteronymous

Definition & Meaning

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Heteronymous is an adjective meaning Of, or relating to a heteronym.

Meaning

Of, or relating to a heteronym.

More Meanings

  1. Being different words, but having a common relationship, as in the case of brother and sister, which denote siblings.
  2. (ophthalmology) Heteronymous hemianopsia (blindness in the left side of one eye and the right side of the other eye)

Antonyms for heteronymous

Common opposites include homonymous.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include hemianopia, hemianopsia, diplopia, homonymous, heteromeric, holonymous.

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