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synonymous

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"Same in meaning"

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10 lettersPronunciation /sɪˈnɒnɪməs/Part of speech adjectiveSorted mnnoossuyyStarts with SEnds with S1 cluesCommon crossword word
1S2Y3N4O5N6Y7M8O9U10S

Definitions

  1. (of words) meaning the same or nearly the same

Word origin

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

Used in a sentence

  • 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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