States and conditions
Synonyms for corner
Synonyms for corner: box and nook. 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 corner
- boxnoun, in the sense "a predicament from which a skillful or graceful escape is impossible"
- nooknoun, in the sense "an interior angle formed by two meeting walls"
All two are filed under corner's own senses, one synonym per sense, each read by a human before it shipped.
a predicament from which a skillful or graceful escape is impossible
His lying got him into a tight corner.
corner in 2 more sentences, same sense
- After the scandal broke, the senator found herself in a tight corner with no good options left.
- The failed audit put the accountant in a corner he could not easily explain his way out of.
How it behaves: In this sense corner usually appears after a verb like put, find oneself in, or back someone into, often modified by tight or difficult, in fairly informal speech and writing.
The true synonym
box
Same sentence, swapped: His lying got him into a tight box.
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.
- recess
- nook
- double
an interior angle formed by two meeting walls
A piano was in one corner of the room.
The true synonym
nook
Same sentence, swapped: A piano was in one nook of the room.
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.
- box
- court
- pit
Where corner turns up in the game
corner 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 four other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where corner is the trap
- spotnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is place, in the sense "a point located with respect to surface features of some region", so corner is there to be ruled out.
- impressionnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is depression, in the sense "a concavity in a surface produced by pressing", and corner is one of the three tiles that lose.
- boxnoun, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is loge, in the sense "private area in a theater or grandstand where a small group can watch the performance", and corner is on the board beside it.
- stubnoun, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is nub, in the sense "a small piece", so corner is there to be ruled out.
Play corner
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so corner 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 states and conditions words at Foothills, 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. corner carries 2 written reason lines, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.