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Synonyms for gone
Synonyms for gone: departed, kaput and exhausted. 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 3 synonyms for gone
Interchangeable with gone, one per sense
Audited under gone's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one gone carries in that sense.
- departedadjective, in the sense "well in the past"
- kaputadjective, in the sense "destroyed or killed"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name gone as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- exhaustedexhausted is an adjective in the sense "drained of energy or effectiveness"
two of these come from gone's own entries 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.
well in the past
Sweet memories of gone summers.
The true synonym
departed
Same sentence, swapped: Sweet memories of departed summers.
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 gone in the sentence quoted.
- drunk
- spent
- used
destroyed or killed
After that crash the poor car was truly gone.
The true synonym
kaput
Same sentence, swapped: After that crash the poor car was truly kaput.
Close but different
The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.
- drunk
- spent
- ago
Where gone turns up in the game
gone is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in eight other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
4 of the 8 puzzles where gone is the trap
- bigadjective, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is great, in the sense "in an advanced stage of pregnancy", with gone sitting one tile away.
- leftadjective, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is odd, in the sense "not used up", and gone is on the board beside it.
- lostadjective, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is confused, in the sense "perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements", so gone is there to be ruled out.
- lostadjective, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is missed, in the sense "not caught with the senses or the mind", so gone is there to be ruled out.
Play gone
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so gone 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 time is the company gone keeps.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. gone carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.