States and conditions

Synonyms for regard

Synonyms for regard: esteem, gaze, heed and respect. 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.

4 synonyms · Tier 3, Ridgeline · 1 sense · noun · 1 reason line

The 4 synonyms for regard

Interchangeable with regard in this sense

Audited under regard's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one regard carries in that sense.

esteemnoun, in the sense "the condition of being honored (esteemed or respected or well regarded)"

Recorded from the other side of the pair

These entries were written under the other word and name regard as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.

gazegaze is a noun in the sense "a long fixed look"
heedheed is a noun in the sense "paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people)"
respectrespect is a noun in the sense "a detail or point"

The first group is filed under regard's own sense. The second reach regard from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside them is that word's.

The sensenounTier 3, RidgelineStates and conditions

the condition of being honored (esteemed or respected or well regarded)

A man who has earned high regard.

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

The true synonym

esteem

Same sentence, swapped: A man who has earned high esteem.

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 regard in the sentence quoted.

compliments
gaze
celebrity

Where regard turns up in the game

regard is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. 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 regard

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so regard 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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Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here

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

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