States and conditions

Synonyms for sporting

The synonym for sporting recorded in this bank is clean, in the sense "exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 2, Treeline · 1 sense · adjective · 1 reason line

The synonym for sporting

cleanadjective, in the sense "exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play"

One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day sporting is audited in a second meaning.

The senseadjectiveTier 2, TreelineStates and conditions

exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play

A sporting solution of the disagreement.

This is the whole of what a player sees before choosing. The meaning has to come out of it.

The true synonym

clean

Same sentence, swapped: A clean solution of the disagreement.

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 sporting in the sentence quoted.

betting
dissipated
athletic

Where sporting turns up in the game

sporting 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 sporting

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so sporting 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. sporting carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.

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