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Synonyms for lateral

The synonym for lateral recorded in this bank is sidelong, in the sense "situated at or extending to the side". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 5, Summit · 1 sense · adjective

The synonym for lateral

sidelongadjective, in the sense "situated at or extending to the side"

A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for lateral.

The senseadjectiveTier 5, Summit

situated at or extending to the side

The lateral branches of a tree.

The sentence the game shows, and the only thing that settles which meaning is meant.

The true synonym

sidelong

Same sentence, swapped: The sidelong branches of a tree.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where lateral stands in the sentence above.

lax
nasal
muted

Where lateral turns up in the game

lateral is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 5, Summit. 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 lateral

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. Nothing on it is written while the page is built.

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