People and roles

Synonyms for breakaway

The synonym for breakaway recorded in this bank is separatist, in the sense "having separated or advocating separation from another entity or policy or attitude". 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 4, High Camp · 1 sense · adjective

The synonym for breakaway

separatistadjective, in the sense "having separated or advocating separation from another entity or policy or attitude"

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

The senseadjectiveTier 4, High CampPeople and roles

having separated or advocating separation from another entity or policy or attitude

A breakaway faction.

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The true synonym

separatist

Same sentence, swapped: A separatist faction.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where breakaway stands in the sentence above.

insurgent
clashing
heretical

Where breakaway turns up in the game

breakaway 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.

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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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