Competition
Synonyms for adversary
Synonyms for adversary: foe and opponent. 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 2 synonyms for adversary
Interchangeable with adversary in this sense
Audited under adversary's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one adversary carries in that sense.
- foenoun, in the sense "an opponent in a contest or dispute"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name adversary as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- opponentopponent is a noun in the sense "a person one competes or contends against"
Two directions, one standard: one audited under adversary and one under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
an opponent in a contest or dispute
By the semifinal, she was facing the toughest adversary of the tournament.
The true synonym
foe
Same sentence, swapped: By the semifinal, she was facing the toughest foe of the tournament.
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 adversary in the sentence quoted.
- mentor
- teammate
- spectator
Where adversary turns up in the game
adversary is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play adversary
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so adversary reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because competition is the company adversary keeps.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. adversary carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.