Thinking and knowing

Synonyms for broad

Synonyms for broad: liberal and wide. 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.

2 synonyms · Tier 2, Treeline · 2 senses · adjective · 1 reason line · a wrong tile in 7 puzzles

The 2 synonyms for broad

liberaladjective, in the sense "showing or characterized by broad-mindedness"
wideadjective, in the sense "broad in scope or content"

All two are filed under broad's own senses, one synonym per sense, each read by a human before it shipped.

Sense 1 of 2adjectiveTier 2, TreelineThinking and knowing

showing or characterized by broad-mindedness

A broad political stance.

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

The true synonym

liberal

Same sentence, swapped: A liberal political stance.

Close but different

Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.

blanket
spacious
vast

Sense 2 of 2adjectiveTier 2, TreelineQualities

broad in scope or content

An invention with broad applications.

The context the game gives you. The gloss above is for readers here, not for players there.

The true synonym

wide

Same sentence, swapped: An invention with wide applications.

Close but different

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

raw
random
plain

Where broad turns up in the game

broad is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across Tier 2, Treeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in seven other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.

4 of the 7 puzzles where broad is the trap

fulladjective, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is total, in the sense "complete in extent or degree and in every particular", so broad is there to be ruled out.
liberaladjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is big, in the sense "given or giving freely", so broad is there to be ruled out.
liquidadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is fluid, in the sense "in cash or easily convertible to cash", and broad is one of the three tiles that lose.
farcicaladjective, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is ridiculous, in the sense "broadly or extravagantly humorous", with broad sitting one tile away.

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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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