Emotions
Synonyms for fret
Synonyms for fret: worry and fuss. 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 fret
Interchangeable with fret in this sense
Audited under fret's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one fret carries in that sense.
- worryverb, in the sense "to be constantly or visibly anxious about something"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name fret as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- fussfuss is a verb in the sense "worry unnecessarily or excessively"
one of these comes from fret's own entry in the bank, and one was audited from the other word's side of the pair. Both directions were read by a human, and only the sense quoted differs.
to be constantly or visibly anxious about something
She tends to fret about the exam results for days before they're posted.
The true synonym
worry
Same sentence, swapped: She tends to worry about the exam results for days before they're posted.
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.
- boast
- joke
- dream
Where fret turns up in the game
fret is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. 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 fret
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so fret 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 emotions at Foothills outward to the whole bank.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. fret carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.