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Synonyms for adjust
Synonyms for adjust: adapt, align and recalibrate. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 3 synonyms for adjust
Interchangeable with adjust in this sense
Audited under adjust's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one adjust carries in that sense.
- adaptverb, in the sense "adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name adjust as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- alignalign is a verb in the sense "place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel or straight"
- recalibraterecalibrate is a verb in the sense "to adjust or fine-tune something in light of new information or conditions"
one of these comes from adjust's own entry in the bank, and two were audited from the other word's side of the pair. Both directions were read by a human, and only the sense quoted differs.
adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions
We must adjust to the bad economic situation.
The true synonym
adapt
Same sentence, swapped: We must adapt to the bad economic situation.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for adjust in the sentence quoted.
- align
- cancel
- surrender
Where adjust turns up in the game
adjust is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where adjust is the trap
- chartverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is graph, in the sense "represent by means of a graph", so adjust is there to be ruled out.
Play adjust
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so adjust reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. adjust carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.