Emotions
Synonyms for gloat
The synonym for gloat recorded in this bank is crow, in the sense "to feel or express smug pleasure about one's own success or another's failure". 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 gloat
- crowverb, in the sense "to feel or express smug pleasure about one's own success or another's failure"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for gloat.
to feel or express smug pleasure about one's own success or another's failure
He loves to gloat about his win in front of his defeated rival.
The true synonym
crow
Same sentence, swapped: He loves to crow about his win in front of his defeated rival.
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 gloat in the sentence quoted.
- apologize
- sympathize
- worry
Where gloat turns up in the game
gloat 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 gloat
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so gloat reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. gloat carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.