Materials
Synonyms for stuff
Synonyms for stuff: material, clobber and thrust. 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 3 synonyms for stuff
Interchangeable with stuff in this sense
Audited under stuff's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one stuff carries in that sense.
- materialnoun, in the sense "the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name stuff as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
The first group is filed under stuff's own sense. The second reach stuff from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside them is that word's.
the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object
Wheat is the stuff they use to make bread.
The true synonym
material
Same sentence, swapped: Wheat is the material they use to make bread.
Close but different
The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot stuff is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- clobber
- poppycock
- chemistry
Where stuff turns up in the game
stuff 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 three other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where stuff is the trap
- partnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is portion, in the sense "something less than the whole of a human artifact", with stuff sitting one tile away.
- truthnoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is accuracy, in the sense "the quality of being near to the true value", with stuff sitting one tile away.
- waterverb, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is irrigate, in the sense "supply with water, as with channels or ditches or streams", so stuff is there to be ruled out.
Play stuff
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so stuff 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 materials at Foothills outward to the whole bank.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. stuff carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.