Groups and collections
Synonyms for social
Synonyms for social: communal and mixer. 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 social
Interchangeable with social in this sense
Audited under social's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one social carries in that sense.
- communaladjective, in the sense "living or breeding in organized communities rather than alone"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name social as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- mixermixer is a noun in the sense "an informal social event held so people can meet and get acquainted"
Two directions, one standard: one audited under social and one under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
living or breeding in organized communities rather than alone.
Ants are social insects that build large, complex colonies.
The true synonym
communal
Same sentence, swapped: Ants are communal insects that build large, complex colonies.
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 social in the sentence quoted.
- friendly
- polite
- outgoing
Where social turns up in the game
social 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 two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where social is the trap
- societynoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is company, in the sense "the state of being with someone", with social sitting one tile away.
- conjugaladjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is marital, in the sense "relating to marriage or the relationship between spouses", and social is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play social
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so social 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 groups and collections 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. social carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.