LANGUAGE: tongue, mother tongue, native tongue; dialect, patois, slang, idiom, jargon, argot, cant HAS: comprise, consist of, contain, include, incorporate, be composed of, be made up of; encompass TOO: excessively, overly, over, unduly, immoderately, inordinately, unreasonably, extremely, exorbitantly, very MANY: numerous, a great/good deal of, a lot of, plenty of, countless, innumerable, scores of, crowds of, droves of, an army of, a horde of, a multitude of, a multiplicity of, multitudinous, multiple, untold; several, various, sundry, diverse, assorted, multifarious; copious, abundant, profuse, an abundance of, a profusion of WORDS: term, name, expression, designation, locution, vocable MEAN: signify, convey, denote, designate, indicate, connote, show, express, spell out; stand for, represent, symbolize; imply, suggest, intimate, hint at, insinuate, drive at, refer to, allude to, point to THE SAME: matching, identical, alike, duplicate, carbon copy, twin; indistinguishable, interchangeable, corresponding, equivalent, parallel, like, comparable, similar, congruent, concordant, consonant THING: object, article, item, artifact, commodity Nah, I don't think so.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

You spent too much time on that.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Well he is lonely.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Well to be fair, they don't really mean the SAME thing. Like "diverse" and "many" are different things, and "excessively" and "very", and "consist of" "contain" and "encompass". So those aren't really fair examples, just synonyms most of the time.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

The English cant comprise exorbitantly copious locution connote carbon copy commodity, amiconscientious?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

The thing about the "same" words though is they have different connotations which can create different meanings. Calling someone a girl/boy versus a man/woman mean two different things, even though they're literally just a word meaning male/female. And likewise calling someone a male will sound more scientific and impersonal than calling him a man, guy, or boy.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I like synonyms. I don't want to have to use the same word over and over.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Imagine how dull literature would be without all of the descriptive terms we have

by Anonymous 12 years ago

OP sounds like the government in 1984. Eliminating all the synonyms in the English language doesn't help us to communicate; it limits our expression of thought. Same denotation, different connotation.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

The OP has goodthink. Be pluscareful, anon, or you may find yourself in doublethink or crimethink, and we wouldn't want that to happen, would we? Big Brother would be doubleplusmad.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I agree with this post I also concur

by Anonymous 12 years ago