By Synonyms, Antonyms

Many words in our lexicon have no reasonable synonyms, and thesaurus is one of them. Railroad is another.

So, What is the synonym of Thesaraus?

Yes, synonym.

Hmmm...This is something that came up in my mindIs the antonym of antonym synonym ?Thanks

Games are great ,keep it it light, keep it fun, make 'em laugh, they won't even know they are learning. 1) Word of the Day. Pick a word (hopefully unknown to the class) Put it in a sentence and ask if anyone can work out the meaning from the context. If they are wrong , no fuss, pass on to...

Pieanne, I'm not sure what happened. It seems that when I deleted my earlier post, the follow-up post was also deleted, (because I no longer see it in the thread). My follow-up post admitted to an error I'd made involving the missing word not. After I wrote that post, I noticed you had also...

Davkett wrote: Pieanne wrote: "Covert" means "implied", which is the total antonym of "implicit". Pieanne, did you also make a flub here?-- Implied is an antonym of implicit? Here's the corrected version of my earlier post ( which I've since deleted because it was so misleading due to...

Pieanne wrote: "Covert" means "implied", which is the total antonym of "implicit". Pieanne, did you also make a flub here?-- Implied is an antonym of implicit? Here's the corrected version of my earlier post ( which I've since deleted because it was so misleading due to the missing...

Thanks for your response, Jonathan. I have no idea what Limewire is, but I still find some problems with the lists of synonyms and antonyms posted here. I agree with Nona that "That's the problem with synonyms. The meanings are not EXACTLY the same and there are contexts in which only one is...

Hmmm. That's the problem with synonyms. The meanings are not EXACTLY the same and there are contexts in which only one is appropriate or meaningful. Defray is a highly formal term of 'legal' language so it is only really used in contracts, legislation and other such extremely formal...