Communication

Synonyms for cry

Synonyms for cry: yell and watchword. 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.

2 synonyms · Tier 1, Foothills · 1 sense · noun · 1 reason line

The 2 synonyms for cry

Interchangeable with cry in this sense

Audited under cry's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one cry carries in that sense.

yellnoun, in the sense "a loud utterance of emotion (especially when inarticulate)"

Recorded from the other side of the pair

These entries were written under the other word and name cry as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.

watchwordwatchword is a noun in the sense "a slogan used to rally support for a cause"

Two directions, one standard: one audited under cry and one under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.

The sensenounTier 1, FoothillsCommunication

a loud utterance of emotion (especially when inarticulate)

A cry of rage.

This is the whole of what a player sees before choosing. The meaning has to come out of it.

The true synonym

yell

Same sentence, swapped: A yell of rage.

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.

watchword
laugh
speaking

Where cry turns up in the game

cry is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. 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 cry

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so cry reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. No sentence here is generated at deploy time.

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Closest first: other communication words at Foothills, then the same tier across the rest of the library.

holdverbagreebe in accordFoothills2 sensesHas a reason line intendverbmeanmean or intend to express or conveyFoothills introduceverbpresentcause to come to know personallyFoothillsHas a reason line jokenounlaugha humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughterFoothillsHas a reason line rejoindernounripostea quick, sharp reply to something saidHigh CampHas a reason line relationnountellingan act of narrationTreeline renditionnouninterpretationthe act of interpreting something as expressed in an artistic performanceRidgeline2 sensesHas a reason line rookienounnewcomera person new to a job, team, or activity.FoothillsHas a reason line

Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here

Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. cry carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.

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