People and roles

Synonyms for active

The synonym for active recorded in this bank is participating, in the sense "taking part in an activity". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 3, Ridgeline · 1 sense · adjective · a wrong tile in 4 puzzles

The synonym for active

participatingadjective, in the sense "taking part in an activity"

A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for active.

The senseadjectiveTier 3, RidgelinePeople and roles

taking part in an activity

An active member of the club.

The context the game gives you. The gloss above is for readers here, not for players there.

The true synonym

participating

Same sentence, swapped: An participating member of the club.

Close but different

Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.

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Where active turns up in the game

active is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in four other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.

The puzzles where active is the trap

aliveadjective, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is awake, in the sense "mentally perceptive and responsive", so active is there to be ruled out.
alertadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is watchful, in the sense "engaged in or accustomed to close observation", and active is on the board beside it.
dormantadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is inactive, in the sense "not erupting and not extinct", so active is there to be ruled out.
passiveadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is inactive, in the sense "lacking in energy or will", so active is there to be ruled out.

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The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so active reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. Everything on it is a stored field, not a run-time composition.

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One vocabulary, two jobs

active is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 4. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.

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