Time
Synonyms for meanwhile
The synonym for meanwhile recorded in this bank is meantime, in the sense "the time between one event, process, or period and another". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for meanwhile
- meantimenoun, in the sense "the time between one event, process, or period and another"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for meanwhile.
the time between one event, process, or period and another
Meanwhile the socialists are running the government.
The true synonym
meantime
Same sentence, swapped: Meantime the socialists are running the government.
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.
- rhythm
- eternity
- interval
Where meanwhile turns up in the game
meanwhile 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 one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where meanwhile is the trap
- thereafteradverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is afterward, in the sense "after that time", and meanwhile is on the board beside it.
Play meanwhile
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so meanwhile 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 time 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. meanwhile carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.