Food and drink
Synonyms for meet
Synonyms for meet: fit, fitting, contact, converge, gather and suffer. 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 6 synonyms for meet
Interchangeable with meet, one per sense
Audited under meet's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one meet carries in that sense.
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name meet as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
The first group is filed under meet's own senses. The second reach meet from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside them is that word's.
fill, satisfy or meet a want or need or condition or restriction
Meet a need.
meet in 2 more sentences, same sense
- This budget must meet the minimum reserve requirement before the board will approve it.
- The recipe calls for less salt to meet his doctor's dietary restriction.
How it behaves: In this sense meet is transitive and usually takes an abstract noun object such as need, requirement, condition, or standard, often in formal or business registers.
The true synonym
fit
Same sentence, swapped: Fit a need.
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 meet in the sentence quoted.
- play
- touch
- power
Opposites, in this sense
neglect, violate and breach reverse meet as it is used in the sentence above. A different sense of meet takes different opposites, which is why these sit inside the sense and not at the top of the page.
- neglect
- violate
- breach
being precisely fitting and right
It is only meet that she should be seated first.
The true synonym
fitting
Same sentence, swapped: It is only fitting that she should be seated first.
Close but different
The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.
- chance
- close
- hurt
Where meet turns up in the game
meet is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in eight other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
4 of the 8 puzzles where meet is the trap
- hurtadjective, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is wounded, in the sense "suffering from physical injury especially that suffered in battle", and meet is on the board beside it.
- raceverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is run, in the sense "compete in a race", and meet is on the board beside it.
- useverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is apply, in the sense "put into service", and meet is on the board beside it.
- chanceadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is casual, in the sense "occurring or appearing or singled out by chance", with meet sitting one tile away.
Play meet
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so meet reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other food and drink words at Foothills, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. meet carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.