States and conditions
Synonyms for sleep
Synonyms for sleep: rest, slumber and nap. 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 3 synonyms for sleep
Interchangeable with sleep, one per sense
Audited under sleep's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one sleep carries in that sense.
- restnoun, in the sense "euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb)"
- slumbernoun, in the sense "a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name sleep as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- napnap is a noun in the sense "a period of time spent sleeping"
two of these come from sleep's own entries in the bank, and one was audited from the other word's side of the pair. Both directions were read by a human, and only the sense quoted differs.
euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb)
They had to put their family pet to sleep.
The true synonym
rest
Same sentence, swapped: They had to put their family pet to rest.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where sleep stands in the sentence above.
- comfort
- coma
- faint
a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended
He didn't get enough sleep last night.
The true synonym
slumber
Same sentence, swapped: He didn't get enough slumber last night.
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.
- drive
- upset
- death
Where sleep turns up in the game
sleep 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 one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where sleep is the trap
- restnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is balance, in the sense "something left after other parts have been taken away", with sleep sitting one tile away.
Play sleep
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so sleep 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 states and conditions is the company sleep keeps.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. sleep carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.