Timeline for How are reserved and formal synonyms?
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| Jan 18, 2017 at 1:43 | history | edited | Mark Hubbard | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 18, 2017 at 1:36 | history | edited | Mark Hubbard | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 18, 2017 at 0:11 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | The M-W definition (which I'm glad to find) is the one not to argue with. The term 'synonym' becomes useless if all the conditions your linked article (which is very good apart from terminology) mentions are demanded. // 'Not always interchangeable' expresses the idea. | |
| Jan 17, 2017 at 23:51 | comment | added | Tom22 | if we consider this definition of 'informal' -having a relaxed, friendly, or unofficial style, manner, or nature- it sort of casts a bit more flavor on what formal "is not" | |
| Jan 17, 2017 at 19:37 | comment | added | Mark Hubbard | @Edwin, I agree. I've now put the term "true synonyms" in quotes (with a link to a dictionary.com blog post that argues there is no such thing), but I can't speak for the creators of the Google dictionary. Should I remove the word "true" from my answer? Wouldn't it be presumptuous of me to claim the Google dictionary is wrong? | |
| Jan 17, 2017 at 19:34 | history | edited | Mark Hubbard | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 17, 2017 at 18:59 | comment | added | NVZ♦ | Just FYI: Google Dictionary borrows definitions from ODO most of the time. | |
| Jan 17, 2017 at 18:53 | history | edited | Mark Hubbard | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 17, 2017 at 17:24 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | What are 'true synonyms'? The only useful definition for synonym[s] I've seen given on ELU (and it's not, to my knowledge, been challenged) is 'two or more words having the same or very nearly the same meaning in at least some of their senses'. | |
| Jan 17, 2017 at 17:16 | history | edited | Mark Hubbard | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 17, 2017 at 16:49 | history | edited | Mark Hubbard | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 17, 2017 at 16:42 | history | answered | Mark Hubbard | CC BY-SA 3.0 |