Synonymous

Quick meaning: Synonymous is an adjective meaning (particularly in semantics, construed with with) Having a similar (sometimes identical) meaning. (See Usage notes below).

Meaning

(particularly in semantics, construed with with) Having a similar (sometimes identical) meaning. (See Usage notes below).

More Meanings

1. (construed with with) Of, or being a synonym.
2. (genetics, of a SNP) Such that both its forms yield the same sequenced protein.

Example Sentences

For much of the time that incels have self-described as such, their collective worldview has been synonymous with the ‘blackpill’.

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.

Synonyms for synonymous

Depending on context, synonyms include synonymal, synonymic, homosemous, homosemic, similar, substitutable.

Antonyms for synonymous

Common opposites include antonymous, asynonymous, nonsynonymous, unsynonymous.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include similar, substitutable, synonym, identical, same, equivalent.

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