People and roles
Synonyms for generous
Synonyms for generous: charitable, bighearted, handsome and openhanded. 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 4 synonyms for generous
Interchangeable with generous in this sense
Audited under generous's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one generous carries in that sense.
- charitableadjective, in the sense "willing to give more than is necessary, especially money or time"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name generous as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- bigheartedbighearted is an adjective in the sense "generous and kind in spirit"
- handsomehandsome is an adjective in the sense "of an amount, generously large"
- openhandedopenhanded is an adjective in the sense "generous in giving"
one of these comes from generous's own entry in the bank, and three were audited from the other word's side of the pair. Both directions were read by a human, and only the sense quoted differs.
willing to give more than is necessary, especially money or time
The generous neighbor donated his extra vegetables to the shelter every week.
The true synonym
charitable
Same sentence, swapped: The charitable neighbor donated his extra vegetables to the shelter every week.
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.
- wealthy
- frugal
- modest
Where generous turns up in the game
generous 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 nine other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
4 of the 9 puzzles where generous is the trap
- belatedadjective, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is late, in the sense "coming later than expected or than it should have", with generous sitting one tile away.
- grumpyadjective, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is cranky, in the sense "easily irritated, bad-tempered", and generous is one of the three tiles that lose.
- aloofadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is remote, in the sense "distant and uninvolved; not friendly or forthcoming in a social setting", with generous sitting one tile away.
- punctualadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is prompt, in the sense "happening or arriving at the expected or arranged time", and generous is on the board beside it.
Play generous
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so generous 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 people and roles 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. generous carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.