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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | domestic, home |
| Synonyms: | aboriginal, autochthonous, belonging, endemic, from, homegrown, homemade, indigenous, inland, internal, local, municipal, national, original, primary, primeval, primitive, regional, related, vernacular |
| Antonyms: | foreign, outside |
| Main Entry: | oral |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | spoken |
| Synonyms: | articulate, ejaculatory, lingual, narrated, phonated, phonetic, phonic, recounted, related, said, sonant, sounded, told, unwritten, uttered, verbal, viva voce, vocal, voiced, word-of-mouth |
| Notes: | oral applies only to the spoken word but verbal can describe both spoken and written; oral means 'by mouth' or 'by spoken word' and verbal means 'written or spoken word' - so an oral agreement is spoken but a verbal agreement can be spoken or written |
| Antonyms: | printed, written |
| Main Entry: | parenthetical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | incidental |
| Synonyms: | bracketed, by the way, episodic, explanatory, extraneous, extrinsic, in parenthesis, incidental, inserted, intermediate, interposed, qualifying, related, subordinate |
| Antonyms: | basic, consequential, important |
| Main Entry: | pertinent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | relevant, suitable |
| Synonyms: | ad rem, admissible, applicable, apposite, appropriate, apropos, apt, connected, fit, fitting, germane, kosher*, legit, material, on target, on the button, on the nose, opportune, pat, pertaining, proper, related, right on, to the point, to the purpose |
| Notes: | relevant means 'worthy of raising in the context of discussion'; pertinent means 'applicable to the point at issue' |
| Antonyms: | inappropriate, irrelevant, unsuitable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | relative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | comparative, respective |
| Synonyms: | about, allied, analogous, approximate, associated, concerning, conditional, connected, contingent, corresponding, dependent, in regard to, near, parallel, proportionate, reciprocal, referring, related, relating to, reliant, with respect to |
| Antonyms: | disproportionate, irrelevant, irrespective, unequal |
| Main Entry: | relative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pertinent, applicable |
| Synonyms: | apposite, appropriate, appurtenant, apropos, contingent, dependent, germane, pertaining, referring, related, relevant |
| Antonyms: | irrelevant, separate, unrelated |
| Main Entry: | relevant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | appropriate; to the purpose |
| Synonyms: | accordant, ad rem, admissible, allowable, applicable, applicatory, apposite, appurtenant, apt, becoming, cognate, compatible, concerning, conformant, conforming, congruent, congruous, consistent, consonant, correlated, correspondent, fit, fitting, germane, harmonious, having direct bearing on, having to do with, important, material, on the button, on the nose, pat, pertaining to, pertinent, pointful, proper, referring, related, relative, significant, suitable, suited, to the point, weighty |
| Notes: | germane and relevant indicate pertinence to a matter, but may not be essential; material means pertinent and necessary relevant means 'worthy of raising in the context of discussion'; pertinent means 'applicable to the point at issue' |
| Antonyms: | inappropriate, irrelevant, unsuitable |
| Main Entry: | same |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | alike, identical |
| Synonyms: | Xerox, aforementioned, aforesaid, carbon, carbon-copy, clone, coequal, comparable, compatible, corresponding, ditto*, double, dupe*, duplicate, equal, equivalent, in the same manner, indistinguishable, interchangeable, like, likewise, look-alike, related, same difference, selfsame, similar, similarly, synonymous, tantamount, twin, very |
| Antonyms: | different, inconsistent, polar, unlike |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | similar |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very much alike |
| Synonyms: | agnate, akin, allied, analogous, coincident, coincidental, coinciding, collateral, companion, comparable, complementary, congruent, congruous, consonant, consubstantial, correlative, corresponding, homogeneous, identical, in agreement, kin, kindred, like, matching, much the same, parallel, reciprocal, related, resembling, same, twin, uniform |
| Antonyms: | alien, different, dissimilar, opposite, unalike, unlike |
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