Movement
Synonyms for sideways
The synonym for sideways recorded in this bank is laterally, in the sense "toward or from one side; not straight forward or backward". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for sideways
- laterallyadverb, in the sense "toward or from one side; not straight forward or backward"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and sideways carries one sense so far.
toward or from one side; not straight forward or backward
The crab scuttled sideways across the wet sand.
The true synonym
laterally
Same sentence, swapped: The crab scuttled laterally across the wet sand.
Close but different
The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot sideways is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- downward
- upward
- backward
Where sideways turns up in the game
sideways is the word under test in one puzzle, at 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 sideways
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so sideways 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 movement words at Treeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. sideways carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.