identical

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Bearing full likeness by having precisely the same set of characteristics

   Bearing full likeness by having precisely the same set of characteristics; indistinguishable.

   • My car is identical with the one my mom has just bought.
   • By this means as many absolutely identical plates can be produced as may be required, and being hardened they will yield a very large number of prints without any appreciable deterioration.
   • For example, assume that 10000 identical chairs were produced through incurring the following costs:...
2. 2

   Not different or other

   Not different or other; not another or others; not different as regards self; selfsame; numerically identical.

   • Nor could I myself look upon this man without some emotion, for he seemed to be the identical person who had picked up the ragged tunic in the lonely wood, and, as a matter of fact, he was!
3. 3

   Of twins, sharing the same genetic code.

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   1. 4

      Exactly equivalent.

   2. 5

      Approximating or approaching exact equivalence.

      • The terms of Article 8th are still more identical.
   3. 6

      Something which has exactly the same properties as something else.

   4. 7

      An identical twin.

      • Fraternal twins are boy-girl pairs as often as of the same sex, while identicals are necessarily of the same sex, […]
   5. 8

      A rhyme on the same syllable, such as "leave" and "believe".

      • The strictest construction of the rule requires complete and unvarying repetition of end-words, but some license is granted in the use of identicals.

The neighborhood

• synonymidentical
• synonymindifferent
• synonymnondifferent
• synonymone and the same
• synonymself
• synonymundifferent
• synonymundifferentiated
• antonymcontrasting
• antonymdifferent
• antonymdistinct
• antonymnon-identical
• antonymopposite
• neighboridentify
• neighboridentity