People and roles

Synonyms for designer

The synonym for designer recorded in this bank is intriguer, in the sense "a person who devises plots or intrigues". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 5, Summit · 1 sense · noun

The synonym for designer

intriguernoun, in the sense "a person who devises plots or intrigues"

That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and designer carries one sense so far.

The sensenounTier 5, SummitPeople and roles

a person who devises plots or intrigues

He is believed to be the principal designer of the terrorist bombing attack.

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The true synonym

intriguer

Same sentence, swapped: He is believed to be the principal intriguer of the terrorist bombing attack.

Close but different

Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.

plotter
tactician
apprentice

Where designer turns up in the game

designer is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 5, Summit. 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 designer

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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. Everything on it is a stored field, not a run-time composition.

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