Words Like ZEUGMA

We have put together a list of words that are similar to ZEUGMA.

3 Alternative Words Similar to zeugma

1 Figure Noun Synonym Words Like Figure

2 Image Noun Synonym Words Like Image

3 Trope Noun Synonym Words Like Trope

5 definitions of zeugma

1 A figure in grammar in which two nouns are joined to a verb suitable to only one of them, but suggesting another verb suitable to the other noun; or in which an adjective is similarly used with two nouns.

2 [capitalized] [NL.] In entomology, a genus of hemipterous insects.

3 The act of using a word, particularly an adjective or verb, to apply to more than one noun when its sense is appropriate to only one.

4 Syllepsis.

5 use of a word to govern two or more words though appropriate to only one

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