People and roles
Synonyms for doctor
Synonyms for doctor: physician and repair. 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 doctor
Interchangeable with doctor in this sense
Audited under doctor's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one doctor carries in that sense.
- physiciannoun, in the sense "a licensed medical practitioner"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name doctor as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- repairrepair is a verb in the sense "restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken"
Two directions, one standard: one audited under doctor and one under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
a licensed medical practitioner
I felt so bad I went to see my doctor.
The true synonym
physician
Same sentence, swapped: I felt so bad I went to see my physician.
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.
- dentist
- water
- cut
Where doctor turns up in the game
doctor 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 two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where doctor is the trap
Play doctor
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so doctor 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 people and roles 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. doctor carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.