Qualities
Synonyms for minute
Synonyms for minute: narrow and infinitesimal. 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 2 synonyms for minute
- narrowadjective, in the sense "characterized by painstaking care and detailed examination"
- infinitesimaladjective, in the sense "infinitely or immeasurably small"
All two are filed under minute's own senses, one synonym per sense, each read by a human before it shipped.
characterized by painstaking care and detailed examination
An exact and minute report.
The true synonym
narrow
Same sentence, swapped: An exact and narrow report.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where minute stands in the sentence above.
- second
- different
- cut
infinitely or immeasurably small
Reduced to a minute scale.
The true synonym
infinitesimal
Same sentence, swapped: Reduced to a infinitesimal scale.
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.
- narrow
- second
- different
Where minute turns up in the game
minute 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 one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where minute is the trap
- secondnoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is endorsement, in the sense "a speech seconding a motion", and minute is on the board beside it.
Play minute
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so minute 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 qualities at Treeline outward to the whole bank.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. minute carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.