Emotions
Synonyms for astonishment
The synonym for astonishment recorded in this bank is amazement, in the sense "the feeling that accompanies something extremely surprising". 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 astonishment
- amazementnoun, in the sense "the feeling that accompanies something extremely surprising"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and astonishment carries one sense so far.
the feeling that accompanies something extremely surprising
He looked at me in astonishment.
The true synonym
amazement
Same sentence, swapped: He looked at me in amazement.
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 astonishment in the sentence quoted.
- ingratitude
- twinge
- levity
Where astonishment turns up in the game
astonishment is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. 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 astonishment
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so astonishment 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 emotions is the company astonishment keeps.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. astonishment carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.