Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Synonymous.
  • Of or pertaining to synonyms.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Gram.) The science, or the scientific treatment, of synonymous words.
  • adjective Of or pertaining to synonyms, or synonymic; synonymous.

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  • adjective of, relating to, or being a synonym

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Examples

  • But I love looking at the vast array of somewhat synonymic words.

    Archive 2008-03-01 2008

  • With the synonymic underbrush thus cleared, we can now address the origin of yee-haw!

    The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004

  • With the synonymic underbrush thus cleared, we can now address the origin of yee-haw!

    The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004

  • We always felt our own activity, for example, as 'the expansion of an idea with which our Self is identified, against an obstacle'; and the following out of such a definition through a multitude of cases elaborates the obvious so as to be little more than an exercise in synonymic speech.

    A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy William James 1876

  • The influence of narrow-minded views peculiar to the earlier ages of civilization led in all languages to a confusion of ideas in the synonymic use of the words 'earth' and 'world', while the common expressions 'voyages round the world', 'map of the world', and 'new world', afford further illustrations of the same confusion.

    COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814

  • It's interesting that as soon as one begins to disect the 'Tea Party' the howling begins! please, you've got that backwards ........ it was as soon as people began to dissect "Change you can believe in" that the howling and spin began from the Obots and their MSM enablers 'what's ironic about this is that "change you can believe in" was Obama's synonymic slogan for

    Propeller Most Popular Stories tdreyer 2010

  • It's interesting that as soon as one begins to disect the 'Tea Party' the howling begins! please, you've got that backwards ........ it was as soon as people began to dissect "Change you can believe in" that the howling and spin began from the Obots and their MSM enablers 'what's ironic about this is that "change you can believe in" was Obama's synonymic slogan for

    Propeller Most Popular Stories tdreyer 2010

  • It's interesting that as soon as one begins to disect the 'Tea Party' the howling begins! please, you've got that backwards ........ it was as soon as people began to dissect "Change you can believe in" that the howling and spin began from the Obots and their MSM enablers 'what's ironic about this is that "change you can believe in" was Obama's synonymic slogan for

    Propeller Most Popular Stories tdreyer 2010

  • It's interesting that as soon as one begins to disect the 'Tea Party' the howling begins! please, you've got that backwards ........ it was as soon as people began to dissect "Change you can believe in" that the howling and spin began from the Obots and their MSM enablers 'what's ironic about this is that "change you can believe in" was Obama's synonymic slogan for

    Propeller Most Popular Stories tdreyer 2010

  • It's interesting that as soon as one begins to disect the 'Tea Party' the howling begins! please, you've got that backwards ........ it was as soon as people began to dissect "Change you can believe in" that the howling and spin began from the Obots and their MSM enablers 'what's ironic about this is that "change you can believe in" was Obama's synonymic slogan for

    Propeller Most Popular Stories tdreyer 2010

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