identical

Academic Word List, sublist 7.

About 25.54 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Bearing full likeness by having precisely the same set of characteristics; indistinguishable.

   My car is identical with the one my mom has just bought.

2. adjective Not different or other; not another or others; not different as regards self; selfsame; numerically identical.
3. adjective Of twins, sharing the same genetic code.
4. adjective Exactly equivalent.
5. adjective Approximating or approaching exact equivalence.
6. noun Something which has exactly the same properties as something else.
7. noun An identical twin.
8. noun A rhyme on the same syllable, such as "leave" and "believe".

Similar words

one and the same same selfsame congruent very superposable isotropic indistinguishable isotropous monovular

Often followed by

with to in twins and for or conditions results

Word family

identically identicalness identicalnesses