Qualities
Synonyms for antique
The synonym for antique recorded in this bank is passe, in the sense "out of fashion". 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 antique
- passeadjective, in the sense "out of fashion"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for antique.
out of fashion
A suit of rather antique appearance.
The true synonym
passe
Same sentence, swapped: A suit of rather passe appearance.
Close but different
Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.
- elderly
- conservative
- continuing
Where antique turns up in the game
antique is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where antique is the trap
- agedadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is older, in the sense "advanced in years", and antique is on the board beside it.
- reformverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is reclaim, in the sense "bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one", and antique is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play antique
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so antique 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 ring widens as it goes, from qualities at High Camp outward to the whole bank.
Every word is an answer somewhere and a trap somewhere else
antique is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 2. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.