synonymous

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   of words, meaning the same or nearly the same

   When my teacher asked me to list two synonymous words, I wrote 'build' and 'construct' on the board.

2. 2
   adj

   Having a similar (sometimes identical) meaning. (See Usage notes below)

   He was not far wrong, for nothing strikes me more forcibly than the universal tendency to grumble: conversation and complaint are synonymous terms.

3. 3
   adj

   Of, or being a synonym.

4. 4
   adj

   Such that both its forms yield the same sequenced protein.

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

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