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Meaning of synonyms.?
Does synonym mean practically or exactly the same?
Practically means meaning and use isnt totally identical-how can a word be used interchangeably and the meaning and use is different?
4 Answers
- GillianLv 44 years ago
A synonym is a word that has a similar, if not identical meaning.
Large and massive are synonymous, as they both describe a big size, even though massive is more emphatic.
- Anonymous4 years ago
Synonyms that you find in a thesaurus almost never "mean the same thing"; they almost always have different connotations, and very often they have different denotations.
It's so hilarious when stupid kids try to plagiarize by substituting thesaurus synonyms for words in passages they're cutting and pasting, because the result is always gibberish.
