Thinking and knowing
Synonyms for head
Synonyms for head: mind, caput, forefront and principal. 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 head
Interchangeable with head, one per sense
Audited under head's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one head carries in that sense.
- mindnoun, in the sense "that which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions"
- caputnoun, in the sense "the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name head as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
Two directions, one standard: two audited under head and two under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
that which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions
I couldn't get his words out of my head.
head in 2 more sentences, same sense
- She tried to push the criticism out of her head before the meeting started.
- The recipe stuck in his head long after he had washed the last dish.
How it behaves: Head typically functions as the object of prepositions such as 'in' or 'out of', often modified by a possessive pronoun like 'his' or 'her', in fairly informal speech.
The true synonym
mind
Same sentence, swapped: I couldn't get his words out of my mind.
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 head in the sentence quoted.
- question
- chief
- information
The opposite, in this sense
heart reverses head as it is used in the sentence above. A different sense of head takes different opposites, which is why these sit inside the sense and not at the top of the page.
- heart
the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals
He stuck his head out the window.
The true synonym
caput
Same sentence, swapped: He stuck his caput out the window.
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.
- mind
- point
- face
Where head turns up in the game
head 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 two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where head is the trap
- questionnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is doubt, in the sense "uncertainty about the truth or factuality or existence of something", and head is one of the three tiles that lose.
- pointnoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is gunpoint, in the sense "the gun muzzle's direction", and head is on the board beside it.
Play head
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so head 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 thinking and knowing is the company head keeps.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. head carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.