Qualities
Synonyms for familiar
Synonyms for familiar: intimate and conversant. 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 familiar
- intimateadjective, in the sense "having mutual interests or affections"
- conversantadjective, in the sense "well informed about or knowing thoroughly"
Each of these belongs to a different sense of familiar, which is why the meaning beside them changes down the list.
having mutual interests or affections
On familiar terms.
The true synonym
intimate
Same sentence, swapped: On intimate terms.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for familiar in the sentence quoted.
- conversant
- square
- regular
well informed about or knowing thoroughly
He was familiar with those roads.
The true synonym
conversant
Same sentence, swapped: He was conversant with those roads.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for familiar in the sentence quoted.
- intimate
- square
- regular
Where familiar turns up in the game
familiar 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 six other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
4 of the 6 puzzles where familiar is the trap
- fellownoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is colleague, in the sense "a person who is member of one's class or profession", and familiar is one of the three tiles that lose.
- fellownoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is dude, in the sense "an informal form of address for a man", and familiar is one of the three tiles that lose.
- regularadjective, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is even, in the sense "occurring at fixed intervals", so familiar is there to be ruled out.
- squareadjective, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is solid, in the sense "providing abundant nourishment", and familiar is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play familiar
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so familiar 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 qualities words at Treeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. familiar carries 2 written reason lines, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.