same
adjective
[ seɪm ]
• identical; not different.
• "she was saying the same thing over and over"
Similar:
the identical,
the very same,
selfsame,
one and the same,
the very,
• of an identical type; exactly similar.
• "they all wore the same clothes"
Similar:
matching,
identical,
alike,
duplicate,
carbon-copy,
twin,
paired,
coupled,
double,
indistinguishable,
interchangeable,
corresponding,
equivalent,
parallel,
(all) of a piece,
like,
like (two) peas in a pod,
comparable,
similar,
correlative,
congruent,
tallying,
agreeing,
concordant,
consonant,
unchanging,
unchanged,
changeless,
unvarying,
unvaried,
invariable,
constant,
consistent,
uniform,
regular,
same
pronoun
• the same thing as something previously mentioned.
• "I'll resign and encourage everyone else to do the same"
Similar:
the same thing,
the aforementioned,
the aforesaid,
the above-mentioned,
• (chiefly in formal or legal use) the person or thing just mentioned.
• "put the tailboard up and secure same with a length of wire"
same
adverb
• similarly; in the same way.
• "treating women the same as men"
Origin:
Middle English: from Old Norse sami, from an Indo-European root shared by Sanskrit sama, Greek homos .
Sami
noun
• the Lapps of northern Scandinavia.
Origin:
Lappish, of unknown origin.
same difference
• used to express the speaker's belief that two or more things are essentially the same, in spite of apparent differences.
• "‘Jesuits, Christians, same difference’, the doctor said"
