*Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, Navoi State Pedagogical Institute, Uzbekistan
**Assistant Teacher, Department of Foreign Language and Literature, Navoi State Pedagogical Institute, Uzbekistan
Online published on 12 February, 2021.
This article aims to review the investigations on synonymy in the English language ,therefore, the process deals with different linguistic descriptions relating scale of synonymy .The scale involves absolute synonymy(can be rarely found) cognitive synonymy (denotes with semememe) , near -synonymy(almost the same meaning).A number of examples are analyzed to detect near-synonymy from the Merriam- Webster’s dictionary. Finally, it is concerned that synonyms in Thesaurus dictionary are approximately near synonyms. Comparing and contrasting methods are used to fulfill the research.
Synonym, Synonymous, Cognitive Synonym, Near Synonym, Thesaurus
