synonymous
/sɪˈnɑnɪməs/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.50 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of, or being a synonym.
Example Sentences
- "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’."
Etymology
From Medieval Latin synōnymus, from Ancient Greek συνώνυμος (sunṓnumos). By surface analysis, synonym + -ous.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: synōnymus, συνώνυμος
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /sɪˈnɑnɪməs/
- British English: /sɪˈnɒnɪməs/
Derived Forms
Phrases
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