People and roles
Synonyms for stranger
The synonym for stranger recorded in this bank is outsider, in the sense "a person who is not known or recognized". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for stranger
- outsidernoun, in the sense "a person who is not known or recognized"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for stranger.
a person who is not known or recognized.
Nobody recognized the stranger who sat down next to her on the bus.
The true synonym
outsider
Same sentence, swapped: Nobody recognized the outsider who sat down next to her on the bus.
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 stranger in the sentence quoted.
- local
- guest
- host
Where stranger turns up in the game
stranger 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 two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where stranger is the trap
- acquaintancenoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is contact, in the sense "a person one knows slightly but who is not a close friend", so stranger is there to be ruled out.
- companionnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is friend, in the sense "a person who accompanies or spends time with another", and stranger is on the board beside it.
Play stranger
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so stranger 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 people and roles words at Foothills, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. stranger carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.