Thinking and knowing

Synonyms for quest

Synonyms for quest: pursuit and seeking. 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.

2 synonyms · Tier 2, Treeline · 2 senses · noun

The 2 synonyms for quest

pursuitnoun, in the sense "a search for an alternative that meets cognitive criteria"
seekingnoun, in the sense "the act of searching for something"

Two senses of quest, two audited synonyms, one for each. The bank does not stack alternatives under a sense it has not separated.

Sense 1 of 2nounTier 2, TreelineThinking and knowing

a search for an alternative that meets cognitive criteria

A quest for wealth.

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

The true synonym

pursuit

Same sentence, swapped: A pursuit for wealth.

Close but different

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

expedition
prosecution
inquiry

Sense 2 of 2nounTier 2, TreelineActions

the act of searching for something

A quest for diamonds.

The context the game gives you. The gloss above is for readers here, not for players there.

The true synonym

seeking

Same sentence, swapped: A seeking for diamonds.

Close but different

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

manhunt
frisk
shakedown

Where quest turns up in the game

quest is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across Tier 2, Treeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

Play quest

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so quest 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. Nothing on it is written while the page is built.

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