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Synonyms
  beautiful
  happy
  good
  love
  great
  bad
  important
  fast
  big
  amazing
  create
  fun
  strong
  nice
  best
  sad
  pretty
  unique
  awesome
Antonyms
  good
  best
  happy
  love
  exceed
  beautiful
 
lazy
 
dense
 
interactive
 
improve
 
fear
 
bad
 
free
 
selfish
 
ugly
 
nice
 
angry
 
shy
 
generous

Definitions

 
beautiful
 
love
 
happy
 
great
 
important
 
amazing
 
change
 
nice
 
experience
 
awesome
 
provide
 
smart
 
fun
 
wonderful
 
strong
 
cool
 
beauty
 
friend
 
knowledge

 

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nap, see: knap
naught, see: knot
naval pertaining to ships and the sea
navel pertaining to the belly button
nay no
neigh a horse's cry
nays votes against
neighs a horse vocalizes
neap the lowest tide
neep a turnip
need, see: knead
new, see: gnu
news, see: gnus
nice, see: gneiss
nickers, see: knickers
night, see: knight
nit, see: knit
nits, see: knits
no, see: know
nob, see: knob
nock, see: knock
nod, see: gnawed
noes, see: knows
none not one
nun woman of God
nose, see: knows
not, see: knot

 
Homograph disambiguation is critically important in speech synthesis, but otherwise, homonyms are mostly curiosities, of limited linguistic interest compared to the strong functional roles of antonyms and synonyms. See pun, however. See also polysemy for a closely related idea.

In scientific classification

In scientific classification, homonyms are scientific names that are identical but pertain to different organisms. The rule of scientific nomenclature is that the first name to be published is valid (the senior homonym); any others are junior homonyms and must be replaced with new names.

For example, Georges Cuvier proposed the genus Echidna in 1797 for the spiny anteater. However, Johann Reinhold Forster had published the name Echidna in 1777 for a genus of moray eels. Forster's use thus has priority, with Cuvier's being a junior homonym; Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger published the replacement name Tachyglossus in 1811.

Quotation

His death, which happen'd in his berth,
At forty-odd befell:
They went and told the sexton, and
The sexton toll'd the bell
Thomas Hood, "Faithless Sally Brown"

also see

Synonyms (in ancient Greek syn 'συν' = plus and onoma 'όνομα' = name) are different words with similar or identical meanings. Antonyms are words with opposite or nearly opposite meanings. (Synonym and antonym are antonyms.)

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