States and conditions
Synonyms for status
Synonyms for status: position and condition. 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 status
Interchangeable with status in this sense
Audited under status's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one status carries in that sense.
- positionnoun, in the sense "the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name status as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- conditioncondition is a noun in the sense "a state at a particular time"
one of these comes from status's own entry 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.
the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society
He had the status of a minor.
The true synonym
position
Same sentence, swapped: He had the position of a minor.
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.
- motion
- degree
- reputation
Where status turns up in the game
status is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. 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 status is the trap
- precedencenoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is priority, in the sense "status established in order of importance or urgency", and status is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play status
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so status 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 ring widens as it goes, from states and conditions at Foothills outward to the whole bank.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. status carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.