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Synonyms for afield
The synonym for afield recorded in this bank is afar, in the sense "far away from home, at or to a distance". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for afield
- afaradverb, in the sense "far away from home, at or to a distance"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for afield.
far away from home, at or to a distance.
Correspondents traveled afield to report on remote conflicts.
The true synonym
afar
Same sentence, swapped: Correspondents traveled afar to report on remote conflicts.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- homeward
- nearby
- locally
Where afield turns up in the game
afield 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 afield is the trap
- overheadadverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is aloft, in the sense "directly above, in the sky", so afield is there to be ruled out.
Play afield
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so afield reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other places words at Treeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. afield carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.