Groups and collections
Synonyms for communal
Synonyms for communal: collective and social. 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 2 synonyms for communal
Interchangeable with communal in this sense
Audited under communal's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one communal carries in that sense.
- collectiveadjective, in the sense "shared by or belonging to all the members of a community"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name communal as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- socialsocial is an adjective in the sense "living or breeding in organized communities rather than alone"
Two directions, one standard: one audited under communal and one under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
shared by or belonging to all the members of a community
The apartment building has a communal garden on the roof.
The true synonym
collective
Same sentence, swapped: The apartment building has a collective garden on the roof.
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 communal in the sentence quoted.
- private
- personal
- exclusive
Where communal turns up in the game
communal 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 communal is the trap
- gruelingadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is arduous, in the sense "extremely demanding and exhausting, testing endurance", with communal sitting one tile away.
Play communal
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so communal 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 communal keeps.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. communal carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.