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Synonyms for negative

The synonym for negative recorded in this bank is minus, in the sense "involving disadvantage or harm". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 2, Treeline · 1 sense · adjective · a wrong tile in 2 puzzles

The synonym for negative

minusadjective, in the sense "involving disadvantage or harm"

One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day negative is audited in a second meaning.

The senseadjectiveTier 2, Treeline

involving disadvantage or harm

Weigh the negative points carefully before you commit.

This is the whole of what a player sees before choosing. The meaning has to come out of it.

The true synonym

minus

Same sentence, swapped: Weigh the minus points carefully before you commit.

Close but different

Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.

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Where negative turns up in the game

negative 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 negative is the trap

oppositeadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is polar, in the sense "characterized by opposite extremes", and negative is on the board beside it.
realadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is tangible, in the sense "capable of being treated as fact", with negative sitting one tile away.

Play negative

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so negative reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. No sentence here is generated at deploy time.

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One vocabulary, two jobs

negative 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.

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