Qualities
Synonyms for heart
Synonyms for heart: nerve, spirit, affection, eye and gist. 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 5 synonyms for heart
Interchangeable with heart, one per sense
Audited under heart's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one heart carries in that sense.
- nervenoun, in the sense "the courage to carry on"
- spiritnoun, in the sense "an inclination or tendency of a certain kind"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name heart as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
The first group is filed under heart's own senses. The second reach heart from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside them is that word's.
the courage to carry on
You haven't got the heart for baseball.
heart in 2 more sentences, same sense
- The rookie catcher didn't have the heart to block the plate against a runner twice his size.
- She found the heart to tell her boss the project was failing, even after months of silence.
How it behaves: In this sense heart usually appears as a direct object after have or lack, often in a negative or questioning construction, in fairly informal spoken registers.
The true synonym
nerve
Same sentence, swapped: You haven't got the nerve for baseball.
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.
- eye
- meat
- heroism
The opposite, in this sense
cowardice reverses heart as it is used in the sentence above. A different sense of heart takes different opposites, which is why these sit inside the sense and not at the top of the page.
- cowardice
an inclination or tendency of a certain kind
He had a change of heart.
heart in 2 more sentences, same sense
- After months of doubt, she finally had a change of heart and agreed to sell the house.
- His heart was set on studying medicine, despite his father's wishes for law.
How it behaves: In this sense heart typically appears in fixed phrases like "a change of heart" or "heart set on," as an abstract noun object of prepositions such as "of" or "on," in an everyday register.
The true synonym
spirit
Same sentence, swapped: He had a change of spirit.
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 heart in the sentence quoted.
- eye
- centre
- calm
Where heart turns up in the game
heart is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across Tier 1, Foothills. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where heart is the trap
- brainnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is mind, in the sense "the mind, as the seat of thought and judgment", and heart is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play heart
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so heart reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from qualities at Foothills outward to the whole bank.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. heart carries 2 written reason lines, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.