same

Examples

• All

• The average quality score for students with LD was the same in both situations.

  Academic text (2013)

• I've got the same problem.

  American Pie Presents: Band Camp (2005)

• You have the same or less bill, right?

  etthehiphoppreacher

• Not everyone has the same opportunities

  Wrecking Ball (2020)

• Your payments will be the same next month as they were last month.

  Be Clever With Your Cash

• There was approximately the same number of male and female migrant workers in the sample.

  Academic text (2008)

• I'll pick you up on the same corner at three thirty-five, okay?

  Fiction book (1997)

• Your payments will be same next month as they were last month.

• There was approximately the same number of male and female migrant workers in the sample.

• We just want to know that we have the same legal rights as any other family.

Synonyms

I

identical

vssame

237 2.9

Being exactly the same in every detail as another

is about equality in amount or value rather than exact detail

E

equivalent

vssame

143 3.5

Equal in value, amount, function, meaning, or effect to something else

is equal in amount or worth rather than in function or meaning

O

one and the same

vssame

34 3.9

Exactly the same person or thing

is used to stress exact identity rather than numerical equality

Antonyms

U

unequal

23 3.0

Not the same in amount or quality

Idioms

A

at the same time

∞ 1.0

During the same time or moment

A

at the same time

233 3.4

Shows a contrast with what was just said

A

all the same

98 3.3

To say something is true despite what was just said

O

on the same page

79 3.4

Having the same view about a plan or goal

I

in the same boat

• Informal

34 3.2

Having the same problems as other people

O

one and the same

34 3.9

Exactly the same person or thing

B

by the same token

17 5.2

For the same reason as what was said before

S

same old story

• Informal

7 3.7

A situation that happens again and again and feels boring

O

on the same wavelength

6 3.8

Share the same ideas and understand each other

C

cut from the same cloth

• Informal

6 5.2

Very similar in character and background

S

same difference

• Informal

4 6.0

A phrase people use to say two things do not matter

I

if it's all the same

4 6.5

When no one likes one choice more than another

I

in the same breath

• Informal

2 5.5

To say two things almost at the same time, often when they do not agree with each other

T

to tar with the same brush

• Informal

1 8.7

Unfairly judge a whole group because of one person's actions

W

to walk and chew gum at the same time

• Informal

1 7.2

To do two simple things at the same time

S

to sing the same tune

1 4.6

To agree with others, often in public

C

can't step in the same river twice

• Literature

9.6

No two experiences are exactly the same

D

different clowns, same circus

• Informal

9.9

A situation where different people bring the same problems

G

to get glad in the same pants one got mad in

• Informal

9.9

To stop being angry and be happy again without changing anything

I

in the same shoes

• Informal

4.6

In the same situation as someone else

O

of the same stripe

7.0

People or things that have similar beliefs and qualities

S

same shit, different toilet

• Offensive

9.9

The same problems stay even when things change

S

to sing from the same hymnbook

• Informal

6.8

To agree with others and express the same view

'

'zackly the same

• Informal

9.9

Completely the same in every detail

Compounds

S

same-sex marriage

84 2.7

A legal partnership between two people of the same sex

S

Same language

1 9.9

A language spoken by the Sámi people in northern Scandinavia and northwest Russia

S

same old politricks

• Slang

9.9

Dishonest actions by politicians to win votes that happen again and again

Surface Forms

Etymology