Contact and joining
Synonyms for contiguous
The synonym for contiguous recorded in this bank is adjacent, in the sense "touching or in unbroken contact along a boundary". 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 contiguous
- adjacentadjective, in the sense "touching or in unbroken contact along a boundary"
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 contiguous is audited in a second meaning.
touching or in unbroken contact along a boundary
The two farms are contiguous, their fields meeting along an unmarked line.
The true synonym
adjacent
Same sentence, swapped: The two farms are adjacent, their fields meeting along an unmarked line.
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.
- parallel
- overlapping
- similar
Where contiguous turns up in the game
contiguous 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 contiguous is the trap
- immediateadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is quick, in the sense "performed with little or no delay", with contiguous sitting one tile away.
Play contiguous
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so contiguous 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 contact and joining 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. contiguous carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.