Thinking and knowing
Synonyms for exclusive
Synonyms for exclusive: sole, scoop and single. 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 3 synonyms for exclusive
Interchangeable with exclusive in this sense
Audited under exclusive's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one exclusive carries in that sense.
- soleadjective, in the sense "not divided or shared with others"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name exclusive as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
Two directions, one standard: one audited under exclusive and two under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
not divided or shared with others
They have exclusive use of the machine.
The true synonym
sole
Same sentence, swapped: They have sole use of the machine.
Close but different
The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.
- arrogant
- narrow
- select
Where exclusive turns up in the game
exclusive 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 four other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where exclusive is the trap
- communaladjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is collective, in the sense "shared by or belonging to all the members of a community", and exclusive is on the board beside it.
- cutthroatadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is predatory, in the sense "ruthlessly competitive, willing to harm rivals' interests to win", and exclusive is on the board beside it.
- privateadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is intimate, in the sense "concerning things deeply private and personal", with exclusive sitting one tile away.
- singleadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is unmarried, in the sense "not married or related to the unmarried state", and exclusive is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play exclusive
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so exclusive reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from thinking and knowing at Treeline outward to the whole bank.
The same bank, read from both sides
exclusive is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 4. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.