is Wonder & Doubt the same thing, can a positive & a negative word have the same MEANING?

Question

Like being stubborn & being persevering?
Agree or disagree?

Answer 1

They can have similar meanings, but not the same. However, in the case of your example, they aren't even that close. Wonder is a state of bewilderment, in which the starting point is a lack of knowledge or information (like the first time you saw a rainbow, before you knew that it was refracted sunlight). Doubt is a reaction to existing information in which that information is questioned.

Your second exampe is closer, but the connotations of words are just as important to their meaning as their denotations. "Stubborn" and "persevering" denote basically the same thing (have the same meaning, indicate the same reality), but their connotations are very different, and this does change their meaning in an important way.

When we choose what words to use when speaking (or writing) to another person, in order for them to understand what we really mean, we have to choose the words that will indicate, as closely as possible, exactly what we mean. When we choose to say "stubborn", we are expressing both the concept of an unwillingness to change or desist, and the characteristic of being unreasonably inflexible. No other word can mean precisely what that word does, so if we use a word with a different connotation, the person we're speaking to will not understand what we've said in the way we meant them to understand it.

This is also why body language is so important. If you say something while smiling, the meaning of what you've said is totally different than it would be if you'd said it while rolling your eyes. The denotations of words (their "official" definitions) are only one part of their meaning as a whole, and their part in communicating an idea.

Answer 2

Most adjectives are defined in the context of purpose for which they are used to describe. A purpose for an action may be positive or negative, so the adjective may be positive or negative. Most words are ambiguous. The Judgment is negative, the Will is positive.

Answer 3

Wondering is being open to all possibilities. Doubt is disregarding possibilities. they do not have the same meaning at all-- rather they are the different polarities of a concept.
persevering and stubborn are also different polarities of a concept.

Answer 4

I agree. The meaning and intention (positive or negative) of a word is in its context and pronunciation. Even life and death can mean the same thing when in the appropriate context.

Answer 5

Look up random and haphazard in the dictionary. You'll find a similar issue.

Answer 6

It's all in the spirit of how it's done. There's a negetive spirit in which you do things, and a positive spirit.

Answer 7

i agree..its really all in the way to say things...and the manor u wish to convey them.

Answer 8

Am I pretty awful or awful pretty?

Answer 9

no they have different meanings.