Social life
Synonyms for clannish
The synonym for clannish recorded in this bank is cliquish, in the sense "tending to associate only within one's own close group, unwelcoming to outsiders". 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 clannish
- cliquishadjective, in the sense "tending to associate only within one's own close group, unwelcoming to outsiders"
One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day clannish is audited in a second meaning.
tending to associate only within one's own close group, unwelcoming to outsiders
The veteran staff were clannish, rarely inviting new hires to lunch.
The true synonym
cliquish
Same sentence, swapped: The veteran staff were cliquish, rarely inviting new hires to lunch.
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 clannish in the sentence quoted.
- busy
- strict
- formal
Where clannish turns up in the game
clannish is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play clannish
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so clannish reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from social life at Treeline outward to the whole bank.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. clannish carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.