Shapes

Synonyms for globular

The synonym for globular recorded in this bank is spheroidal, in the sense "shaped like a globe or ball, rounded on all sides". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 3, Ridgeline · 1 sense · adjective · 1 reason line

The synonym for globular

spheroidaladjective, in the sense "shaped like a globe or ball, rounded on all sides"

A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for globular.

The senseadjectiveTier 3, RidgelineShapes

shaped like a globe or ball, rounded on all sides

The dewdrop hung globular from the leaf's edge, its surface curved evenly all around.

This is the whole of what a player sees before choosing. The meaning has to come out of it.

The true synonym

spheroidal

Same sentence, swapped: The dewdrop hung spheroidal from the leaf's edge, its surface curved evenly all around.

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.

glistening
translucent
dripping

Where globular turns up in the game

globular is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. 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 globular

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so globular 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 shapes words at Ridgeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.

diagonallyadverbslantwisein a slanting direction, at an angle rather than straight acrossRidgelineHas a reason line distortionnounaberrationa warping of an image or shape that makes it appear unnaturalRidgelineHas a reason line emptinessnounvacuuman empty area or spaceRidgelineHas a reason line forknouncrotchthe region of the angle formed by the junction of two branchesRidgeline contournounoutlinethe outline or shape of something, especially a curved edge or surfaceFoothillsHas a reason line convexadjectivebulgingcurving outward, like the exterior of a circle or sphereTreelineHas a reason line crescentnounsicklea curved shape that tapers to a point at each end, like the moon in its early phaseTreelineHas a reason line diligencenounindustrypersevering determination to perform a taskRidgeline

Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here

Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. globular carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.

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