Groups and collections
Synonyms for collective
Synonyms for collective: joint, communal and corporate. 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 collective
Interchangeable with collective in this sense
Audited under collective's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one collective carries in that sense.
- jointadjective, in the sense "done by or shared among all the members of a group together"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name collective as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
The first group is filed under collective's own sense. The second reach collective from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside them is that word's.
done by or shared among all the members of a group together.
The workers made a collective demand for safer equipment.
The true synonym
joint
Same sentence, swapped: The workers made a joint demand for safer equipment.
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 collective in the sentence quoted.
- individual
- personal
- official
Where collective turns up in the game
collective is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in three other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where collective is the trap
- corporateadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is incorporated, in the sense "organized and maintained as a legal corporation", so collective is there to be ruled out.
- neutraladjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is impersonal, in the sense "having no personal preference", so collective is there to be ruled out.
- vagueadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is obscure, in the sense "not clearly expressed or understood", and collective is on the board beside it.
Play collective
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so collective reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because groups and collections is the company collective keeps.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. collective carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.