Qualities
Synonyms for hardheaded
The synonym for hardheaded recorded in this bank is practical, in the sense "guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory". 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 hardheaded
- practicaladjective, in the sense "guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and hardheaded carries one sense so far.
guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory
A hardheaded appraisal of our position.
The true synonym
practical
Same sentence, swapped: A practical appraisal of our position.
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.
- dogmatic
- pigheaded
- bullheaded
Where hardheaded turns up in the game
hardheaded is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. 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 hardheaded
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so hardheaded 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 qualities is the company hardheaded keeps.
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