Equal and Indistinguishable

Equal

Equal adjective - Resembling another in every respect.
Usage example: as far as I can see, except for the high price, the store-brand jacket is equal to the jacket with the designer label

Indistinguishable is a synonym for equal in alike topic. In some cases you can use "Indistinguishable" instead an adjective "Equal", when it comes to topics like identical, exactly the same.

Nearby Words: equalize, equalise, equable, equate, equity

Indistinguishable

Indistinguishable adjective - Resembling another in every respect.
Usage example: a synthetic fabric that supposedly is indistinguishable from real silk

Equal is a synonym for indistinguishable in exactly the same topic. You can use "Equal" instead an adjective "Indistinguishable".

Both words in one sentence

  • In George Orwell's Animal Farm the animals initially intend to make an equal society but the pigs make small changes to the laws until the pigs are indistinguishable from the humans they once hated.
  • Crystal Dragon Jesus There is an ape religion centered on a prophet-like figure, The Lawgiver, whose teachings are contained on the Sacred Scrolls, but the deity above him seems to be indistinguishable from the Abrahamaic God (outside of creating all apes equal and "in his own image", of course).
  • Shoot and worked matches often appear on the same card and are treated with equal respect, and some of the worked ones are executed in a manner which makes them hardly or even fully indistinguishable from shoots.
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