synonymous

English

Etymology

synonym +‎ -ous

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /sɪˈnɒnɪməs/
(US) IPA^(key): /sɪˈnɑnɪməs/
Audio (US) (file)

Adjective

synonymous (not comparable)

(construed with with, narrower sense) Having an identical meaning.
- 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 243:
  He was not far wrong, for nothing strikes me more forcibly than the universal tendency to grumble: conversation and complaint are synonymous terms.
- 2019 July 17, Talia Levin, “When Non-Jews Wield Anti-Semitism as Political Shield”, in GQ‎:
  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.
(construed with with, broader sense) Having a similar meaning.
(construed with with) Of, or being a synonym.
(genetics, of a SNP) Such that both its forms yield the same sequenced protein.

Synonyms

(narrower sense, having identical meaning): homosemous, homosemic

Antonyms

Related terms

Translations

having an identical meaning

Bulgarian: еднозначен (ednoznačen)
Catalan: sinònim (ca)
Czech: ^{(please verify)} synonymní, ^{(please verify)} souznačný\
Esperanto: sinonima
Galician: sinónimo (gl)
Georgian: სინონიმური (sinonimuri)
German: bedeutungsgleich (de), gleichbedeutend (de), synonym (de), synonymisch
Greek:
Ancient: συνώνυμος (sunṓnumos)
Irish: comhchiallach
Kazakh: синонимдес (sinonimdes)
Latin: synonymos, synonymus
Latvian: sinonīms, sinonīmisks
Polish: równoznaczny, synonimiczny (pl), bliskoznaczny (pl)
Portuguese: sinónimo (pt) (Portugal), sinônimo (pt) (Brazil)
Spanish: sinónimo (es)
Ukrainian: синонімі́чний (synonimíčnyj)

having a similar meaning

Catalan: sinònim (ca)
Czech: ^{(please verify)} synonymní, ^{(please verify)} souznačný
Dutch: synoniem (nl), evenwoordig
Estonian: sünonüümne
Finnish: synonyyminen (fi), samanmerkityksinen (fi)
Galician: sinónimo (gl)
Georgian: სინონიმური (sinonimuri)
German: bedeutungsähnlich, sinnverwandt (de), synonym (de)
Hungarian: szinonim, rokon értelmű
Italian: sinonimo (it)
Latvian: sinonīms, sinonīmisks
Polish: bliskoznaczny (pl), synonimiczny (pl)
Portuguese: sinónimo (pt) (Portugal), sinônimo (pt) (Brazil)
Russian: синоними́чный (ru) (sinonimíčnyj)
Serbo-Croatian: istoznačan (sh), sinoniman (sh)
Spanish: sinónimo (es)
Swedish: synonym (sv)
Ukrainian: синонімі́чний (synonimíčnyj)
Volapük: leigasinifik, otsinifik

of, or being a synonym

Bulgarian: синонимен (bg) (sinonimen)
Czech: ^{(please verify)} synonymní, ^{(please verify)} souznačný
Dutch: evenwoordig, synoniem (nl)
Estonian: sünonüümne
Finnish: synonyyminen (fi)
Galician: sinónimo (gl)
Georgian: სინონიმური (sinonimuri)
German: synonym (de)
Kazakh: синонимдік (sinonimdık)
Latvian: sinonīms, sinonīmisks
Portuguese: sinónimo (pt) (Portugal), sinônimo (pt) (Brazil)
Spanish: sinónimo (es)
Swedish: synonym (sv)
Volapük: leigasinifavödik, otsinifavödik

genetics: with both forms yielding the same protein

French: synonyme (fr)
Italian: sinonimo (it)
Portuguese: sinónimo (pt) (Portugal), sinônimo (pt) (Brazil)
Spanish: sinónimo (es)

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