Contact and joining
Synonyms for missive
Synonyms for missive: communique and letter. 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 missive
Interchangeable with missive in this sense
Audited under missive's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one missive carries in that sense.
- communiquenoun, in the sense "a formal or official written message"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name missive as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- letterletter is a noun in the sense "a written message addressed to a person or organization"
one of these comes from missive's own entry in the bank, and one was audited from the other word's side of the pair. Both directions were read by a human, and only the sense quoted differs.
a formal or official written message
The general's terse missive ordered an immediate withdrawal from the valley.
The true synonym
communique
Same sentence, swapped: The general's terse communique ordered an immediate withdrawal from the valley.
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.
- memoir
- manifesto
- eulogy
Where missive turns up in the game
missive is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. 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 missive
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so missive 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 contact and joining words at High Camp, 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. missive carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.