People and roles

Synonyms for privately

The synonym for privately recorded in this bank is confidentially, in the sense "in a manner not observed or heard by others; confidentially". 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 · adverb · 1 reason line · a wrong tile in 1 puzzle

The synonym for privately

confidentiallyadverb, in the sense "in a manner not observed or heard by others; confidentially"

A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for privately.

The senseadverbTier 2, TreelinePeople and roles

in a manner not observed or heard by others; confidentially

He confessed privately to his best friend that he was scared.

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

The true synonym

confidentially

Same sentence, swapped: He confessed confidentially to his best friend that he was scared.

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 privately in the sentence quoted.

publicly
loudly
briefly

Where privately turns up in the game

privately 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 privately is the trap

visiblyadverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is perceptibly, in the sense "in a way that can be seen or noticed", and privately is on the board beside it.

Play privately

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so privately 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 wrong tile gets explained too

Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. privately carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.

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