What is a synonym and what is it for?

Synonyms are words that have a close or equal lexical meaning, but are different in spelling and sound. To understand what a synonym means , examples are: the cavalry is cavalry; Big - huge, huge; Fear - fear, be shy; Heat - heat.

Differences between synonymous words from each other

Each of the synonyms usually has a special connotation of meaning that distinguishes it from others. For example, synonyms for the word "red" are the words "scarlet," "crimson," "purple." The word "red" means "having the color of blood". The word "scarlet" means "bright red". "Crimson" - "dense red." "Crimson" also means a dense red color, but with a weak purple or bluish tinge.

Some synonyms differ in expressive coloration, they should be used only within a certain style. For example, to the word "eyes" a synonym is "zenki", and also "eyes". The word "eyes" is widely used both in colloquial and in book speech, has no additional expressive coloring. The word "eyes" is used only in highly artistic texts and poetic works. It has a certain coloring of solemnity, obsolete. The word "zenki", denoting the eyes, on the contrary, has a hint of rudeness, harshness, is used in non-standardized oral speech.

Many synonyms at the same time are distinguished by a shade of lexical meaning, and fixation in a certain style, and expressive coloring. For example, synonyms "complain" (express grief, resentment, general literary) - "whine." (Persistently, annoyingly complain, conversational style); "Study" (engage in, general literary) - "study" (study carefully, book style).

A small group of similar words has the same meaning, they do not differ from each other in either stylistic fixation or expressive coloring. These are the so-called complete synonyms, for example, "thermometer" - "thermometer", "linguistics" - "linguistics", "octopus" - "octopus". You can find a synonym for a certain word by a special dictionary.

What is a synonym, its meaning in speech

These words help to avoid monotony of speech, unjustified repetition of identical words. Synonyms also help to more accurately formulate a thought, make speech expressive, for example: "Dog dogs barked, usually they bark at postmen ... Indeed, looking out the window, I saw a letter-carrier." In this example, it is clear that such a synonym-word is chosen, which helps to avoid repetition and gives the sentence expressiveness.

A group of words, which consists of a series of synonyms, is called synonymous. One of them, which is placed first in dictionaries, is considered the main, the main one.

In the synonymic series, not only words, but also phraseological units (stable phrases) can be included. In the sentence, they perform one syntactic function. To understand what a synonym is, as the synonymic series can look, it is possible from the examples: many - without counting, chickens do not peck, over the edge.

The ability to apply synonymous riches of the Russian language is an important indicator of the speaker's oratorical skill.