• surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    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.

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      3 hours ago

      You’re an alcoholic because your blood is alcoholic.

      This is false, that’s not what the noun ‘alcoholic’ means.

    • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
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      10 hours ago

      Does this mean every second definition of a word in the dictionary is also a homonym? How different does it need to be?

      “homonym” == “same-name”, so, yes by definition. it has the same name as another definition.