at is `profound» includes `deep« but not vice versa.: His profound insight into human nature has stood the test of centuriesdeep insight into human nature has stood the test of centuries.deep insight into human nature has stood the test of centuries. * Profound insight into human nature has stood the test of centuriesis understood within mutual entailment (AB) but `deep» and `profound« doesn »t correspond to this. Native speakers feel that `profound« is stylistically more elevated or more formal that deep? So with all this evidence it is impossible to say that they are synonymous. This is why Person gives the following figure as the analysis for them. `Situated, coming abstract; abstract from, or extending intellectual; emotive far below the strongly; surface emotive.Attributes (SA): informal SA; formal.Person »s model we have three categories: CC, TA, SA. The thing is that not all words include SA box, so it «s left open. Person also reviewed other examples analyzed by Warren.: Child / brat child CC brat TA » and `brat« are an example of connotative variant in Warren. They are given as variants but if we apply the test of hyponymy we see that it works. `Brat» is a kind of `child« but not vice versa. `Brat» includes `child« plus the feature `bad-mannered. Person finds the collocation in which `brat» appears; it tends to appear with adjectives that reinforces this feature of bad-mannered what proves that that atom of meaning (...) same happens with `woman« and `lady».: She is a woman, but she is not a lady.is a lady, but she is not a womanquestions the fact that two words can be synonymous out of the blue. He defends contextual information as the key to determine if two words are synonymous or not.: Readable: legibleto what extent can we say that they are synonyms?
* readable:
(of handwriting or point) able to be read easily «or interesting to read»
* legible:
(of handwriting or print) `able to be read easily« are only synonymous when they mean `able to be read easily»
The child, quite obviously, would not be expected to produce a composition, but would be expected to know the alphabet, where the full stops and commas are used, and be able to write in a readable / legible manner, something like, `The cat sat on the mat '.
It is not easy to see why her memory should have faded, especially as she wrote a most readable / * legible autobiography which went quickly through several editions. ; readable; able to with pleasure; be read « and / or; interest.share senses number 1 but to `readable» it «s also added sense number 2. This claims that in some contexts they are fully interchangeable, but we have also to take into account their stylistic feature and the register.principle, scientific words have discrete meanings.: mercury: quicksilverappear as full synonyms because they say that their relationship is that of mutual inclusion (AB), the concept `mercury» can be expressed with both words. However, style draws the line between both words. Native speakers and corpora of data give us what we have in the following figure :: formal, quicksilver; scientific whitish; fluid informal; metal.formal, scientific (Romance origin): Quicksilver informal (Saxon origin) something peculiar has happened with this words. The popular word `quicksilver« is startin...
