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Synonyms for rear
Synonyms for rear: back and backside. 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 rear
- backnoun, in the sense "the part of something that is furthest from the normal viewer"
- backsidenoun, in the sense "the side of an object that is opposite its front"
All two are filed under rear's own senses, one synonym per sense, each read by a human before it shipped.
the part of something that is furthest from the normal viewer
It was hidden in the rear of the store.
The true synonym
back
Same sentence, swapped: It was hidden in the back of the store.
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 rear in the sentence quoted.
- arse
- wing
- polls
the side of an object that is opposite its front
His room was toward the rear of the hotel.
The true synonym
backside
Same sentence, swapped: His room was toward the backside of the hotel.
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.
- front
- upside
- lee
Where rear turns up in the game
rear is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. 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 rear is the trap
- sternadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is strict, in the sense "severe and unremitting in making demands", and rear is on the board beside it.
- bumnoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is loafer, in the sense "person who does no work", and rear is one of the three tiles that lose.
- sternadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is austere, in the sense "of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor", and rear is on the board beside it.
Play rear
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so rear 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 places is the company rear keeps.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. rear carries 2 written reason lines, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.