synonym
- noun
- /ˈsɪnəˌnɪm/
- A synonym for "happy" is "joyful," which conveys a similar feeling.
- synonyms and antonyms
- synonyms and definitions
- words and synonyms
Siri, give me some synonyms for clumsy for deft.
- Siri, give me some synonyms for clumsy for deft.
- So these are not just synonyms for each other.
- Which of the following is a synonym for the word gurulis?
- They're really being used for the purposes of this discussion as synonyms for each other.
- I meant sprays, Will, I meant sprays, but there's a lot of synonyms for sprays.
- I'm or even what what's a synonym for that?
- And there are a long list, literally, of those words and, and different synonyms that you can use for them.
- One of the shifts that we've seen in recent years is that diversity has become a synonym for equality.
- So the term that I like to propose for us to consider today as a kind of synonym for vagueness is counter realism.
- And I think in this case, Einstein is using it as almost or the pursuit of happiness as a kind of synonym for hedonism.
- They had diction, syntax and they knew synonyms and reason.
Examples
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Similarly, we will refer to educational goal attainment as a synonym for student success.
Academic text (2011) -
Soon, the word glamour had become a synonym for beauty itself.
Academic text (2017) -
Well, "here" is a synonym for "catch."
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Name a synonym for tired and we'll get in the car.
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- It's a synonym for "stupid."
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"If the word you need has a different tone, you better find a synonym fast."
Fiction book (1999) -
Sometimes I speak of the underground economy as a synonym for the informal economy.
Academic text (1997) -
Both beauty and justice have in English a shared synonym, the word fairness.
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One of the shifts that we've seen in recent years is that diversity has become a synonym for equality.
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Creativity is often mistakenly used as a synonym for originality, though creative behavior usually has elements of originality.
Academic text (1991)
Synonyms
A word with the same or very similar meaning as another word
Antonyms
Compounds
How Similar
- Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
synonym = syn + onym
The parts are Greek combining forms that are not standalone English words, so an average B1 learner cannot derive the meaning from English base words.
Etymology
Synonym comes from two parts: syn- meaning 'together' and -onym meaning 'name', as in antonym and pseudonym. So a synonym is like a word that shares the same 'name' or meaning as another word.