identical
/ɪˈdɛntɪkl̩/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.21 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Bearing full likeness by having precisely the same set of characteristics; indistinguishable.
adj
Not different or other; not another or others; not different as regards self; selfsame; numerically identical.
adj
Of twins, sharing the same genetic code.
adj
adj
noun
Something which has exactly the same properties as something else.
noun
An identical twin.
Example Sentences
- "My car is identical with the one my mom has just bought."
- "By this means as many absolutely identical plates can be produced as may be required, and being hardened they will yield a very large number of prints without any appreciable deterioration."
- "For example, assume that 10000 identical chairs were produced through incurring the following costs:..."
- "The zygote soon divides into two identical cells."
- "The best of the joke, too, is, that the very coal-merchant who is loudest in his complaints against the person who defrauded him, is the identical man who sat in the centre of the very front row of the pit last night and laughed the most boisterously at this very same thing,--and not so well done either."
- "These men were grandsons of a certain Guntram, who, according to some authorities, is identical with a Count Guntram who flourished during the reign of the emperor Otto the Great, and whose ancestry can be traced back to the time of the Merovingian kings."
Etymology
From identic + -al.