States and conditions
Synonyms for leading
Synonyms for leading: preeminent, ahead, leadership and star. 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 leading
Interchangeable with leading in this sense
Audited under leading's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one leading carries in that sense.
- preeminentadjective, in the sense "greatest in importance or degree or significance or achievement"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name leading as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- aheadahead is an adjective in the sense "having the leading position or higher score in a contest"
- leadershipleadership is a noun in the sense "the activity of leading"
- starstar is an adjective in the sense "indicating the most important performer or role"
The first group is filed under leading's own sense. The second reach leading from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside them is that word's.
greatest in importance or degree or significance or achievement
The country's leading poet.
The true synonym
preeminent
Same sentence, swapped: The country's preeminent poet.
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 leading in the sentence quoted.
- starring
- ahead
- popular
Where leading turns up in the game
leading is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. 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 leading is the trap
- educationnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is teaching, in the sense "the activities of educating or instructing", and leading is one of the three tiles that lose.
- popularadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is democratic, in the sense "representing or appealing to or adapted for the benefit of the people at large", with leading sitting one tile away.
Play leading
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so leading 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 states and conditions at High Camp outward to the whole bank.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. leading carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.