synonymous

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /sɪˈnɒnɪməs/
• (US) IPA^(key): /sɪˈnɑnɪməs/

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Adjective

synonymous (not comparable)

1. (construed with with, narrower sense) Having an identical meaning.
   • 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Chapter XXVII. Lady Marchmont to Sir Jasper Meredith.”, in 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^[1]:

     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.

2. (construed with with, broader sense) Having a similar meaning.
3. (construed with with) Of, or being a synonym.
4. (genetics, of a SNP) Such that both its forms yield the same sequenced protein.

Synonyms

• synonymal (obsolete), synonymic, synonymical
• (narrower sense, having identical meaning): homosemous, homosemic

Antonyms

• antonymous
• asynonymous
• nonsynonymous
• unsynonymous
• (genetics): nonsynonymous

Derived terms

• asynonymous
• nonsynonymous
• nonsynonymously
• parasynonymous
• synonymously
• synonymousness
• unsynonymous

 

Related terms

• synonym
• synonymity

Translations

having an identical meaning

• Bulgarian: еднозначен (ednoznačen)
• Catalan: sinònim (ca)
• Czech: ^{(please verify)} synonymní (cs), ^{(please verify)} souznačný (cs)\
• 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 (cs), ^{(please verify)} souznačný (cs)
• 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 (hu), 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 (cs), ^{(please verify)} souznačný (cs)
• 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)