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Synonyms for fascinating
Synonyms for fascinating: absorbing and enchanting. 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 fascinating
- absorbingadjective, in the sense "capable of arousing and holding the attention"
- enchantingadjective, in the sense "capturing interest as if by a spell"
Two senses of fascinating, two audited synonyms, one for each. The bank does not stack alternatives under a sense it has not separated.
capable of arousing and holding the attention
A fascinating story.
The true synonym
absorbing
Same sentence, swapped: A absorbing story.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where fascinating stands in the sentence above.
- fabulous
- catching
- remarkable
capturing interest as if by a spell
A fascinating woman.
The true synonym
enchanting
Same sentence, swapped: A enchanting woman.
Close but different
Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.
- fabulous
- remarkable
- unique
Where fascinating turns up in the game
fascinating is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across Tier 3, Ridgeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in three other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where fascinating is the trap
- fabulousadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is mythical, in the sense "based on or told of in traditional stories", and fascinating is one of the three tiles that lose.
- remarkableadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is singular, in the sense "unusual or striking", so fascinating is there to be ruled out.
- uniqueadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is singular, in the sense "the single one of its kind", and fascinating is on the board beside it.
Play fascinating
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so fascinating reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Sorted by difficulty rather than by topic, which is what an untagged word has to go on.
Every word is an answer somewhere and a trap somewhere else
fascinating is an answer in 2 puzzles and a wrong tile in 3. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.