identical

1. 1.

   exactly alike; incapable of being perceived as different

   “rows of identical houses”

   “cars identical except for their license plates”

   “they wore indistinguishable hats”

   Synonymsindistinguishable

   Similarsame
2. 2.

   being the exact same one; not any other:

   “this is the identical room we stayed in before”

   “the themes of his stories are one and the same”

   “saw the selfsame quotation in two newspapers”

   “on this very spot”

   “the very thing he said yesterday”

   “the very man I want to see”

   Synonymsselfsamevery

   Similarsame
3. 3.

   (of twins) derived from a single egg or ovum

   “identical twins are monovular”

   Synonymsmonovular

   Antonymsfraternal
4. 4.

   having properties with uniform values along all axes

   Similarisotropic

   physics

5. 5.

   coinciding exactly when superimposed

   “identical triangles”

   Synonymssuperposable

   Similarcongruent

Questions about identical

What does identical mean?

identical means "exactly alike; incapable of being perceived as different". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in identical?

identical has 4 syllables: i-den-ti-cal. The stress falls on "den". In IPA it is /aɪˈdɛntɪkəl/.

What is another word for identical?

Close synonyms include indistinguishable, selfsame, very, monovular, superposable. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of identical?

The recorded antonyms are fraternal.

Is identical a common word?

identical is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.