100 Synonyms Examples (Explained)

Synonyms

The synonyms they are two or more words that are written differently but express the same or almost the same thing. For example: lift / climb, swift / fast.

Synonymy occurs between words with sufficient similarity in meaning, so that one can be replaced by the other.

For example:

What are synonyms for?

The main function of synonyms is that they allow the use of a word to be alternated with other words that imply the same thing.

This is important when writing texts in which a term becomes very frequent; in that case it is convenient to alternate with synonyms so as not to bore the reader with repetitions.

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It is common for words with a very concrete or specific meaning to lack synonyms (example: stethoscope), while Words that express feelings, emotions or rather abstract concepts usually have many synonyms (example: cute / beautiful / graceful).

Examples of synonyms

The following list includes pairs of words that are synonyms:

Types of synonymy

There are four types of synonymy:

Synonym characteristics

Synonymy is a relation of meaning or meaning, as also happens with antonyms, which are words with opposite meaning. The homonyms or the paronymsInstead, they are words that are linked for reasons associated with their form.

The synonymy relationship can be given by its strict meaning (from a dictionary) or by the connotation that a word can assume under certain circumstances.

For example, the words 'husband' and 'husband' will be synonymous in any case, while the words 'cargoo' and 'heavy' will be synonyms only in certain contexts, since the word 'heavy', in its basic meaning, only means that it has a lot of mass or weight (in physical or materials).

Although, in general, the synonymy relationship occurs between words of the same morphological class (between several nouns or between several adjectives), sometimes a adverb can be synonymous with a adjective, for example.

Synonyms in literature

As indicated, synonymy is especially important in narrative texts and in literary genres in general, where each word contributes an aesthetic value to the work.

The correct use of synonyms becomes a virtue of the writers of short stories, novels or poems, surely obtained from reading and the constant enrichment of the vocabulary.

Synonymy should not be confused with figures of speech such as metaphor wave comparisonAlthough they ‘say the same thing differently’, they do not do so by simply changing individual words, but in a more complex and elaborate way.