identical

Speech parts

1. identical - Noun

2. identical - Adjective

3. identical - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

The same; the selfsame; the very same; not different; as, the identical person or thing.

Uttering sameness or the same truth; expressing in the predicate what is given, or obviously implied, in the subject; tautological.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

selfsame same indistinguishable like similar uniform very equivalent corresponding parallel consistent analogous twin synonymous interchangeable
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Antonyms

different distinct contrasting unlike other various
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Phrases with the word

self-identical almost identical nearly identical identical persona identical power in three identical copies

Anagrams

dinetical ctenidial diclinate

Examples

A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success. Robert Orben

Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise. Gwendolyn Brooks

In one African myth the word for God is even identical with skill and capacity. The Godhead is defined as that thing which appears in man as the mystery of an unusual skill or capacity. It is something divine, a spark of the divinity in him, not his own possession or achievement, but a miracle. Marie-Louise von Franz

The doors of heaven and hell are adjacent and identical. Nikos Kazantzakis

The essence of spirit, he thought to himself, was to choose the thing which did not better one's position but made it more perilous. That was why the world he knew was poor, for it insisted morality and caution were identical. Norman Mailer

Ends and beginnings are identical. Rwandan Proverb

Close letter words and terms

ident identarian identic identical by descent identical by state identical chance