synonymic vs synonymous

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What would be the difference between synonymic and synonymous? If there isn't any,is it synonymic to/with?
 
ostap77 said:
What would be the difference between synonymic and synonymous? If there isn't any,is it synonymic to/with?
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I have never used "synonymic". It appears to mean the same as "synonymous" but to be much less widely used.
 
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bhaisahab said:
I have never used "synonymic",it appears to mean the same as "synonymous" but to be much less widely used.
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So it's synonimic with,correct?
 
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So it's synonimic with,correct?
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No examples of sentences containing the word are to be found in the BNC, and only one each (as an attributive adjective) in COCA and Webster's 3. The five citations in the OED contain the word used only as an attributive adjective.

If you are going to use the word (which the OED suggests is not synonymous with 'synonymous'), people are more likely to think that the word itself is a mistake than to worry about the preposition you use.
 
5jj said:
No examples of sentences containing the word are to be found in the BNC, and only one each (as an attributive adjective) in COCA and Webster's 3. The five citations in the OED contain the word used only as an attributive adjective.

If you are going to use the word (which the OED suggests is not synonymous with 'synonymous'), people are more likely to think that the word itself is a mistake than to worry about the preposition you use.
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No. I'm not going to use it. That's what I've been hearing from my Ukrainian teacher. So it got me wondering if it's correct.
 
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ostap77 said:
No. I'm not going to use it. That's what I've been hearing from my Ukrainian teacher. So it got me wondering if it's correct.
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I had never heard it before either. If I were you, I would keep using "synonymous" in class with the teacher. If the teacher pulls you up on it and asks why you're not using "synonymic" as he/she does, you can always tell him/her about this website and the fact that plenty of native speakers have told you that it's not used in everyday language and was completely new to several of us.
 
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