Synonyms

 

Synonyms are words that have the same, or almost the same meaning.

There are many words that can have the same meaning.  See Table 2.

 

 

Table 1

 save - keep auto - car  hope - wish  small - little
 kind - nice  all - every  close - shut  sniff - smell
 pot - pan  sick - ill  stone - rock  see - look
big- large  touch - feel talk - speak  unhappy - sad
 hear - listen  fast - quick  happy - jolly  hold - grab
dreams -thoughts smart - clever  possess - have  reply - answer
 certainly - definitely  powerful - mighty  seen - noticed  leave - exit
 wrong - false  cup -mug  gross - disgusting  chair - seat
pretty - beautiful  bucket - pail  noise - sound  yell - shout

 

Table 2

Big Happy  Small Sad
huge

enormous

gigantic

large

massive

 joyful

delighted

ecstatic

pleased

 

 tiny

wee

minute

 

 

 unhappy

miserable

upset

distraught

 

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