People and roles
Synonyms for opponent
The synonym for opponent recorded in this bank is adversary, in the sense "a person one competes or contends against". 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 opponent
- adversarynoun, in the sense "a person one competes or contends against"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and opponent carries one sense so far.
a person one competes or contends against.
Across the chessboard sat his oldest opponent, a player he had never once beaten.
The true synonym
adversary
Same sentence, swapped: Across the chessboard sat his oldest adversary, a player he had never once beaten.
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.
- partner
- ally
- spectator
Where opponent turns up in the game
opponent 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 opponent is the trap
- competitiveadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is militant, in the sense "showing a fighting disposition", and opponent is one of the three tiles that lose.
- oppositionnoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is confrontation, in the sense "the act of hostile groups opposing each other", so opponent is there to be ruled out.
Play opponent
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so opponent 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 people and roles is the company opponent keeps.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. opponent carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.