SYNONYMOUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does synonymous mean? 

• SYNONYMOUS (adjective)
  The adjective SYNONYMOUS has 1 sense:

1. (of words) meaning the same or nearly the same

  Familiarity information: SYNONYMOUS used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SYNONYMOUS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of words) meaning the same or nearly the same

Similar:

similar ((of words) expressing closely related meanings)

substitutable ((of words) interchangeable in a given context without changing the import of the expression)

Antonym:

antonymous (of words: having opposite meanings)

Derivation:

synonym (two words that can be interchanged in a context are said to be synonymous relative to that context)

synonymity; synonymousness (the semantic relation that holds between two words that can (in a given context) express the same meaning)

 Context examples 

For that matter, life and footing were synonymous in this unending warfare with the pack, and none knew it better than White Fang.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

A missense non-synonymous SNP results in an amino acid change in the protein product due to a codon change, while a nonsense non-synonymous SNP results in a termination codon.

(Non-synonymous Coding SNP, NCI Thesaurus)

A patch is sometimes synonymous with the terms Extended Release Film and System.

(Patch Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

I use the verb 'to torment,' as I observed to be your own method, instead of 'to instruct,' supposing them to be now admitted as synonymous.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Administration within the thorax (internal to the ribs); synonymous with the term endothoracic.

(Endothoracic Route of Administration, Food and Drug Administration/CDISC)

The damage to biological tissues is caused by superoxide and other free radicals generated by many factors, including exposure to alcohol, medications, trauma, cold, toxins, and radiation or by antimicrobial cellular immunity, metabolic abnormality, or normal aging; not synonymous with hypoxia or hyperoxia.

(Oxidative stress, NCI Thesaurus)

Synonymous with the term intracervical.

(Endocervical Route of Administration, Food and Drug Administration/CDISC)

Synonymous with the term intratracheal.

(Endotracheal Route of Administration, Food and Drug Administration/CDISC)

Poverty looks grim to grown people; still more so to children: they have not much idea of industrious, working, respectable poverty; they think of the word only as connected with ragged clothes, scanty food, fireless grates, rude manners, and debasing vices: poverty for me was synonymous with degradation.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Though the 6th Edition of the AJCC Cancer Staging Manual indicates that unspecified TNM staging descriptors may be considered synonymous with the corresponding fully specified clinical category, such omission may lead to ambiguity in meaning, and in practice unqualified descriptors are frequently used with other intended meanings.

(Generic TNM Finding, NCI Thesaurus)