Thinking and knowing

Synonyms for blackout

The synonym for blackout recorded in this bank is amnesia, in the sense "partial or total loss of memory". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 2, Treeline · 1 sense · noun · 1 reason line · a wrong tile in 2 puzzles

The synonym for blackout

amnesianoun, in the sense "partial or total loss of memory"

A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for blackout.

The sensenounTier 2, TreelineThinking and knowing

partial or total loss of memory

He has a total blackout for events of the evening.

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

The true synonym

amnesia

Same sentence, swapped: He has a total amnesia for events of the evening.

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 blackout in the sentence quoted.

brownout
certainty
uncertainty

Where blackout turns up in the game

blackout 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 two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.

The puzzles where blackout is the trap

delaynoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is wait, in the sense "time during which some action is awaited", and blackout is one of the three tiles that lose.
confusionnoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is disarray, in the sense "a mental state characterized by a lack of clear and orderly thought and behavior", with blackout sitting one tile away.

Play blackout

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

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. No sentence here is generated at deploy time.

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