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Synonyms for sprawling

The synonym for sprawling recorded in this bank is expansive, in the sense "spreading out over a large area in an irregular, untidy way". 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 sprawling

expansiveadjective, in the sense "spreading out over a large area in an irregular, untidy way"

A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for sprawling.

The senseadjectiveTier 2, TreelinePlaces

spreading out over a large area in an irregular, untidy way.

The sprawling suburb stretched for miles beyond the old city limits.

One sentence, one sense. Without it the word could be read three other ways.

The true synonym

expansive

Same sentence, swapped: The expansive suburb stretched for miles beyond the old city limits.

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 sprawling in the sentence quoted.

compact
cramped
tidy

Where sprawling turns up in the game

sprawling 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 sprawling

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so sprawling reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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The wrong tile gets explained too

Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. sprawling carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.

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