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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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W

waiver
waver

The "W" section is specially dedicated to Lem Bingley. WACs members of the Women's Army Corps
wax candle stuff
whacks several blows
wade walk in shallow water
weighed weight was measured
wail a cry
wale welt; corduroy ridge
whale large oceanic mammal
wain a wagon
wane decrease
Wayne a man's name
waist between ribs and hips
waste make ill use of
wait remain in readiness
weight an amount of heaviness
waive give up rights
wave undulating motion
waiver contract for giving up rights
waver rocking motion
Wales Western division of UK
wales corduroy ridges
whales a pod of ocean mammals
walk perambulate
wok Chinese cooking pan
walks moves by foot
woks salient feature of a Chinese kitchen
want desire
wont accustomed
war large scale armed conflict
wore past tense of wear
ware merchandise
wear attire
where a place
warn to advise of a hazard
worn displaying evidence of use
warrantee one who is protected by a guarantee
warranty a guarantee
warship naval implement of destruction
worship revere in a religious manner
wary cautious
wherry light row boat
way path or direction
weigh to measure weight
whey watery part of milk
we us
wee very small
we'd contraction of "we would"
weed like how our flowers won't grow
we'll contraction of "we will"
wheel what we keep reinventing
we're contraction of "we are"
weir a low dam, or a fence in a river for catching fish
we're contraction of "we are"
were past tense plural of "to be"
whir prolonged swish or buzz
we've contraction of "we have"
weave to make cloth
weak not strong
week seven days
weal a skin welt
wheel what we in Silicon Valley continually reinvent weald a rural area
wheeled having wheels
wield to apply or use
weather meteorological conditions
wether a castrated ram
whether if it be the case
weld to join metal by melting its edges
welled pouring forth
wen a benign skin tumor
when at a specific time
wet watery
whet prime
which selection
witch broomstick ridin' crones
whig supporter of American revolution
wig false hairpiece
while during
wile craft
whiled passing the time
wild untamed
whine annoying cry
wine fermented grape juice
whined past tense of whine
wind what you do to a clockwork
wined drank well of spirits
whirled rapidly rotated
world Earth
whirred made a whizzing or buzzing sound
word a speech sound
whit insignificant amount
wit cleverness; sense of humor
whither to which place, point, condition, etc.?
wither shrivel up
who's contraction of "who is"
whose belonging to whom
whoa equestrian directive to stop
woe despair
whole, see: hole
wholly, see: holey
whore, see: hoar
whored, see: hoard
why how come?
wye the shape of the letter "Y"
won, see: one
won't contraction of "will not"
wont accustomed
wood what trees are made of
would will do
worst least best
wurst sausage
wrack, see: rack
wrap, see: rap
wrapped, see: rapped
wreak, see: reek
wreck, see: reck
wrest, see: rest
wretch, see: retch
wright, see: right
wring, see: ring
write, see: right
wrote, see: rote
wrought, see: rot
wry, see: rye

 
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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