Qualities
Synonyms for mutual
Synonyms for mutual: common and reciprocal. 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 mutual
Interchangeable with mutual in this sense
Audited under mutual's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one mutual carries in that sense.
- commonadjective, in the sense "common to or shared by two or more parties"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name mutual as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- reciprocalreciprocal is an adjective in the sense "concerning each of two or more persons or things"
one of these comes from mutual'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.
common to or shared by two or more parties
The mutual interests of management and labor.
The true synonym
common
Same sentence, swapped: The common interests of management and labor.
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.
- attending
- twin
- parallel
Where mutual turns up in the game
mutual is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. 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 mutual is the trap
- everlastingadjective, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is eternal, in the sense "lasting forever or for a very long time", and mutual is on the board beside it.
- commonadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is coarse, in the sense "of low or inferior quality or value", with mutual sitting one tile away.
Play mutual
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so mutual reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because qualities is the company mutual keeps.
Every word is an answer somewhere and a trap somewhere else
mutual is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 2. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.