Thinking and knowing
Synonyms for caution
Synonyms for caution: care, carefulness and caveat. 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.
The 3 synonyms for caution
Interchangeable with caution, one per sense
Audited under caution's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one caution carries in that sense.
- carenoun, in the sense "judiciousness in avoiding harm or danger"
- carefulnessnoun, in the sense "the trait of being cautious"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name caution as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- caveatcaveat is a noun in the sense "a warning against certain acts"
two of these come from caution's own entries in the bank, and one was audited from the other word's side of the pair. Both directions were read by a human, and only the sense quoted differs.
judiciousness in avoiding harm or danger
He exercised caution in opening the door.
The true synonym
care
Same sentence, swapped: He exercised care in opening the door.
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 caution in the sentence quoted.
- caveat
- steer
- urge
the trait of being cautious
A man of caution.
The true synonym
carefulness
Same sentence, swapped: A man of carefulness.
Close but different
The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot caution is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- precaution
- caveat
- vigilance
Where caution turns up in the game
caution is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. 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 caution is the trap
- disqualifyverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is bar, in the sense "to officially remove a competitor from a contest for breaking a rule", and caution is one of the three tiles that lose.
- avaricenoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is greed, in the sense "extreme greed for wealth or material gain", and caution is on the board beside it.
Play caution
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so caution 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 thinking and knowing words at Treeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. caution carries 2 written reason lines, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.