Perception
Synonyms for keen
Synonyms for keen: sharp, cutting, exquisite and piercing. 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 keen
Interchangeable with keen in this sense
Audited under keen's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one keen carries in that sense.
- sharpadjective, in the sense "of a sense, sharp and highly developed"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name keen as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
The first group is filed under keen's own sense. The second reach keen from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside them is that word's.
of a sense, sharp and highly developed
Owls have keen night vision that lets them hunt in near darkness.
The true synonym
sharp
Same sentence, swapped: Owls have sharp night vision that lets them hunt in near darkness.
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 keen in the sentence quoted.
- bright
- watchful
- curious
Where keen turns up in the game
keen is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in four other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where keen is the trap
- neatadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is orderly, in the sense "clean or organized", with keen sitting one tile away.
- neatadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is slick, in the sense "superficially impressive, but lacking depth and attention to the true complexities of a subject", with keen sitting one tile away.
- aggressiveadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is belligerent, in the sense "characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight", with keen sitting one tile away.
- wailingadjective, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is lamenting, in the sense "vocally expressing grief or sorrow or resembling such expression", and keen is on the board beside it.
Play keen
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so keen 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 perception is the company keen keeps.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. keen carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.