Thinking and knowing
Synonyms for novel
Synonyms for novel: new and refreshing. 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 novel
Interchangeable with novel in this sense
Audited under novel's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one novel carries in that sense.
- newadjective, in the sense "original and of a kind not seen before"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name novel as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- refreshingrefreshing is an adjective in the sense "pleasantly new or different"
one of these comes from novel'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.
original and of a kind not seen before
The computer produced a completely novel proof of a well-known theorem.
The true synonym
new
Same sentence, swapped: The computer produced a completely new proof of a well-known theorem.
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 novel in the sentence quoted.
- refreshing
- serial
- classic
Where novel turns up in the game
novel is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in three other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where novel is the trap
- authenticadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is reliable, in the sense "conforming to fact and therefore worthy of belief", so novel is there to be ruled out.
- juvenileadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is adolescent, in the sense "displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity", and novel is one of the three tiles that lose.
- uniqueadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is singular, in the sense "the single one of its kind", so novel is there to be ruled out.
Play novel
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so novel 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 thinking and knowing at Foothills outward to the whole bank.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. novel carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.