This bothers me. I looked it up and it’s right, but I want it to be wrong for words that have the same root meaning. It’s not like skate (the fish) and skate (the activity). You’re an alcoholic because your blood is alcoholic. They’re so closely related.
Does this mean every second definition of a word in the dictionary is also a homonym? How different does it need to be?
You have discovered homonyms
Homonyms should not exist, get a new sound. i am the #1 homophobe
Wait, not like that
This bothers me. I looked it up and it’s right, but I want it to be wrong for words that have the same root meaning. It’s not like skate (the fish) and skate (the activity). You’re an alcoholic because your blood is alcoholic. They’re so closely related.
Does this mean every second definition of a word in the dictionary is also a homonym? How different does it need to be?
I hate English.
This is false, that’s not what the noun ‘alcoholic’ means.
“homonym” == “same-name”, so, yes by definition. it has the same name as another definition.
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