Qualities
Synonyms for static
Synonyms for static: stable and electrostatic. 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 static
- stableadjective, in the sense "showing little if any change"
- electrostaticadjective, in the sense "concerned with or producing or caused by static electricity"
Each of these belongs to a different sense of static, which is why the meaning beside them changes down the list.
showing little if any change
A static population.
The true synonym
stable
Same sentence, swapped: A stable population.
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 static in the sentence quoted.
- motionless
- electrostatic
- blaring
concerned with or producing or caused by static electricity
The dry air produced a strong static charge.
The true synonym
electrostatic
Same sentence, swapped: The dry air produced a strong electrostatic charge.
Close but different
The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.
- stable
- motionless
- blaring
Where static turns up in the game
static 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 four other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where static is the trap
- attacknoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is fire, in the sense "intense adverse criticism", and static is one of the three tiles that lose.
- groovenoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is furrow, in the sense "a long narrow cut or channel in a surface", and static is on the board beside it.
- blastingadjective, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is ruinous, in the sense "causing injury or blight", and static is on the board beside it.
- rigidadjective, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is inflexible, in the sense "incapable of adapting or changing to meet circumstances", with static sitting one tile away.
Play static
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so static 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 qualities is the company static keeps.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. static carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.