Word Meanings - IDENTICAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The same; the selfsame; the very same; not different; as, the identical person or thing. I can not remember a thing that happened a year ago, without a conviction . . . that I, the same identical person who now remember that event, did then

Additional info about word: IDENTICAL

1. The same; the selfsame; the very same; not different; as, the identical person or thing. I can not remember a thing that happened a year ago, without a conviction . . . that I, the same identical person who now remember that event, did then exist. Reid. 2. Uttering sameness or the same truth; expressing in the predicate what is given, or obviously implied, in the subject; tautological. When you say body is solid, I say that you make an identical proposition, because it is impossible to have the idea of body without that of solidity. Fleming. Identical equation , an equation which is true for all values of the algebraic symbols which enter into it.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of IDENTICAL)

• Alike
• Resembling
• similar
• together
• twin-fellow
• analogous
• identical
• equal
• equivalent
• same
• homogeneous
• akin
• equally
• Convertible
• Identical
• commensurate
• conterminous
• equipollent
• Individual
• Personal
• specific
• peculiar
• indivisible
• singular
• idiosyncratic
• special
• single
• separate
• particular
• Same
• selfsame
• corresponding
• Synonymous
• Equivalent
• tantamount
• alike in meaning
• interchangeable

Related words: (words related to IDENTICAL)

• PECULIARIZE
  To make peculiar; to set appart or assign, as an exclusive possession. Dr. John Smith.
• SPECIFICNESS
  The quality or state of being specific.
• INDIVISIBLE
  Not capable of exact division, as one quantity by another; incommensurable. (more info) 1. Not divisible; incapable of being divided, separated, or broken; not separable into parts. "One indivisible point of time." Dryden.
• SINGLE-BREASTED
  Lapping over the breast only far enough to permit of buttoning, and having buttons on one edge only; as, a single-breasted coast.
• EQUALIZER
  One who, or that which, equalizes anything.
• SPECIFICALLY
  In a specific manner.
• HOMOGENEOUSNESS
  Sameness 9kind or nature; uniformity of structure or material.
• IDENTICAL
  1. The same; the selfsame; the very same; not different; as, the identical person or thing. I can not remember a thing that happened a year ago, without a conviction . . . that I, the same identical person who now remember that event, did then
• INDIVIDUALIZER
  One who individualizes.
• SINGULAR
  Existing by itself; single; individual. The idea which represents one . . . determinate thing, is called a singular idea, whether simple, complex, or compound. I. Watts. (more info) 1. Separate or apart from others; single; distinct. Bacon. And
• CORRESPOND
  1. To be like something else in the dimensions and arrangement of its parts; -- followed by with or to; as, concurring figures correspond with each other throughout. None of them correspond to the Shakespearean type. J. A. Symonds.
• CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL
  A school that teaches by correspondence, the instruction being based on printed instruction sheets and the recitation papers written by the student in answer to the questions or requirements of these sheets. In the broadest sense of the
• PECULIARNESS
  The quality or state of being peculiar; peculiarity. Mede.
• SIMILARY
  Similar. Rhyming cadences of similarly words. South.
• SINGLE-ACTING
  Having simplicity of action; especially , acting or exerting force during strokes in one direction only; -- said of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc.
• CONTERMINOUS
  Having the same bounds, or limits; bordering upon; contiguous. This conformed so many of them as were conterminous to the colonies and garrisons, to the Roman laws. Sir M. Hale.
• EQUALIZE
  1. To make equal; to cause to correspond, or be like, in amount or degree as compared; as, to equalize accounts, burdens, or taxes. One poor moment can suffice To equalize the lofty and the low. Wordsworth. No system of instruction will completely
• CORRESPONDINGLY
  In a corresponding manner; conformably.
• SINGLE-HANDED
  Having but one hand, or one workman; also, alone; unassisted.
• PARTICULARITY
  1. The state or quality of being particular; distinctiveness; circumstantiality; minuteness in detail. 2. That which is particular; as: Peculiar quality; individual characteristic; peculiarity. "An old heathen altar with this particularity."
• INCORRESPONDENCE; INCORRESPONDENCY
  Want of correspondence; disagreement; disproportion.
• MISDEMEAN
  To behave ill; -- with a reflexive pronoun; as, to misdemean one's self.
• DEMEANURE
  Behavior. Spenser.
• INSEPARATE
  Not separate; together; united. Shak.
• SUBINDIVIDUAL
  A division of that which is individual. An individual can not branch itself into subindividuals. Milton.
• REMEANT
  Coming back; returning. "Like the remeant sun." C. Kingsley.
• UNEQUALABLE
  Not capable of being equaled or paralleled. Boyle.
• INEQUALITY
  An expression consisting of two unequal quantities, with the sign of inequality between them; as, the inequality 2 < 3, or 4 > 1. (more info) 1. The quality of being unequal; difference, or want of equality, in any respect; lack of uniformity;
• UNSPECIALIZED
  Not specialized; specifically , not adapted, or set apart, for any particular purpose or function; as, an unspecialized unicellular organism. W. K. Brooks.
• RECONVERTIBLE
  Capable of being reconverted; convertible again to the original form or condition.
• ARAMAEAN; ARAMEAN
  Of or pertaining to the Syrians and Chaldeans, or to their language; Aramaic. -- n.
• DISSIMILARLY
  In a dissimilar manner; in a varied style. With verdant shrubs dissimilarly gay. C. Smart.
• UNIPERSONAL
  Used in only one person, especially only in the third person, as some verbs; impersonal. (more info) 1. Existing as one, and only one, person; as, a unipersonal God.