Objects
Synonyms for gadget
The synonym for gadget recorded in this bank is contraption, in the sense "a small mechanical or electronic device, especially an ingenious one". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for gadget
- contraptionnoun, in the sense "a small mechanical or electronic device, especially an ingenious one"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for gadget.
a small mechanical or electronic device, especially an ingenious one
She kept a small gadget in her kitchen drawer that she never used.
The true synonym
contraption
Same sentence, swapped: She kept a small contraption in her kitchen drawer that she never used.
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 gadget in the sentence quoted.
- ornament
- souvenir
- garment
Where gadget turns up in the game
gadget is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. 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 gadget
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so gadget reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because objects is the company gadget keeps.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. gadget carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.