synonyms: if all words have a unique meaning then how come some words mean the same?

Question

synonyms: It is argued that even though words can have a similar meaning, actually all words have a different meaning. However when I look up foolish on wikipedia then the word stupidity comes up???

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synonym

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fool

Answer 1

The difference is in the degree of the meaning. If I were to call something blue - is it sky blue, sea blue, baby blue, blue-green, green-blue, or midnight blue?

He blew until he was blue! But what shade of blue did he become?

And is my answer boring or did it just bore you and you became uninterested?

:-)

Answer 2

Since Wikipedia isn't anything real, but things that people have submitted, you could make a submission that said that wikipedial means foolish, or stupid

The English language Wikipedia thanks its contributors for creating over 1,500,000 articles.

Answer 3

ask my english teacker to explain that to you we do this dumb synenom test every week