People and roles
Synonyms for bystander
The synonym for bystander recorded in this bank is onlooker, in the sense "a person present at an event who does not take part in it". 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 bystander
- onlookernoun, in the sense "a person present at an event who does not take part in it"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and bystander carries one sense so far.
a person present at an event who does not take part in it
A bystander watched the accident happen but did nothing to help.
The true synonym
onlooker
Same sentence, swapped: A onlooker watched the accident happen but did nothing to help.
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.
- participant
- victim
- referee
Where bystander turns up in the game
bystander 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 one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where bystander is the trap
- heronoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is champion, in the sense "a person admired for courageous action in danger", and bystander is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play bystander
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so bystander reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other people and roles words at Treeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. bystander carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.