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Synonyms for obsolete
The synonym for obsolete recorded in this bank is outmoded, in the sense "no longer in use because something newer has replaced it". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for obsolete
- outmodedadjective, in the sense "no longer in use because something newer has replaced it"
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 obsolete is audited in a second meaning.
no longer in use because something newer has replaced it
The old software became obsolete once the new operating system launched.
The true synonym
outmoded
Same sentence, swapped: The old software became outmoded once the new operating system launched.
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 obsolete in the sentence quoted.
- buggy
- expensive
- popular
Where obsolete turns up in the game
obsolete 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 one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where obsolete is the trap
- embryonicadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is rudimentary, in the sense "in the earliest stage of development, not yet fully formed", so obsolete is there to be ruled out.
Play obsolete
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so obsolete 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 time 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. obsolete carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.