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Homonyms
  acts - things done
  ax - chopping tool
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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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accede: stick to agreement
exceed: surpass

accept: receive
except: exclude

adapt: adjust
adept: proficient

adverse: opposed
averse: not interested

allude: refer to indirectly
elude: avoid

accept: receive
except: exclude

affect: change, influence
effect: (v) to bring about (n) result, impression

altar: place of worship
alter: to change

all right: all right
alright: outdated usage

appraise: value
apprise: inform, notify

a very short little insignificant English word
eh an interrogative utterance
acts things done
ax chopping tool
ad short for advertisement
add short for addition
adds performs additions
ads more than one advertisement
adze axe-like tool
ade fruit beverage
aid to assist
aide an assistant
aerie eagle's nest
airy breezy
aero of aircraft
arrow slender, pointed shaft
affect to change
effect result
ail sick
ale beer
air stuff we breathe
are 1/100th of a hectare
e'er contraction of "ever"
ere eventually
err to make a mistake
heir one who will inherit
aisle walkway
I'll contraction of "I will"
isle island
all everything
awl pointed scriber
allowed permitted
aloud spoken
altar raised center of worship
alter to change
an a single instance
Ann a woman's name
ant insect
aunt parent's sister
ante preliminary bet
auntie sister of a parent
arc portion of a circle
ark vessel
ascent the climb
assent to agree
ate past tense of eat
eight the number base of octal
auger a drill
augur foretell
aught anything
ought should
aural of hearing
oral of the mouth
auricle external part of the ear
oracle seer
away distant
aweigh just clear of the bottom
awed in a state of wonder
odd not usual
aweful filled with awe
awful really bad
offal butchered entrails
aye naval affirmative
eye ocular organ
I oneself

 
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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