Thinking and knowing
Synonyms for sharp
Synonyms for sharp: keen and shrewd. 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 sharp
Interchangeable with sharp in this sense
Audited under sharp's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one sharp carries in that sense.
- keenadjective, in the sense "having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name sharp as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- shrewdshrewd is an adjective in the sense "marked by practical hardheaded intelligence"
The first group is filed under sharp's own sense. The second reaches sharp from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside it is that word's.
having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions
As sharp and incisive as the stroke of a fang.
The true synonym
keen
Same sentence, swapped: As keen and incisive as the stroke of a fang.
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 sharp in the sentence quoted.
- abrupt
- expert
- false
Where sharp turns up in the game
sharp 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 seven other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
4 of the 7 puzzles where sharp is the trap
- violentadjective, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is wild, in the sense "intensely vivid or loud", with sharp sitting one tile away.
- patheticadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is pitiful, in the sense "inspiring mixed contempt and pity", and sharp is on the board beside it.
- smoothadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is liquid, in the sense "smooth and unconstrained in movement", and sharp is on the board beside it.
- accidentaladjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is incidental, in the sense "not of prime or central importance", and sharp is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play sharp
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so sharp reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other thinking and knowing words at Treeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. sharp carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.