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Synonyms for alive

Synonyms for alive: awake, live and animated. 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.

3 synonyms · Tier 1, Foothills · 2 senses · adjective · 1 reason line · a wrong tile in 1 puzzle

The 3 synonyms for alive

Interchangeable with alive, one per sense

Audited under alive's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one alive carries in that sense.

  • awakeadjective, in the sense "mentally perceptive and responsive"
  • liveadjective, in the sense "capable of erupting"

Recorded from the other side of the pair

These entries were written under the other word and name alive as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.

  • animatedanimated is an adjective in the sense "having life or vigor or spirit"

The first group is filed under alive's own senses. The second reaches alive from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside it is that word's.

Sense 1 of 2adjectiveTier 1, FoothillsThinking and knowing

mentally perceptive and responsive

Alive to what is going on.

One sentence, one sense. Without it the word could be read three other ways.

The true synonym

awake

Same sentence, swapped: Awake to what is going on.

Close but different

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

  • active
  • running
  • working
Sense 2 of 2adjectiveTier 1, Foothills

capable of erupting

The volcano is very much alive.

This is the whole of what a player sees before choosing. The meaning has to come out of it.

The true synonym

live

Same sentence, swapped: The volcano is very much live.

Close but different

The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot alive is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.

  • awake
  • smart
  • green

Where alive turns up in the game

alive is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across Tier 1, Foothills. 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 alive is the trap

  • liveadjective, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is unrecorded, in the sense "actually being performed at the time of hearing or viewing", so alive is there to be ruled out.

Play alive

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

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The wrong tile gets explained too

Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. alive carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.

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