Qualities
Synonyms for style
Synonyms for style: way, trend, dash and stylus. 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 4 synonyms for style
Interchangeable with style, one per sense
Audited under style's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one style carries in that sense.
- waynoun, in the sense "how something is done or how it happens"
- trendnoun, in the sense "the popular taste at a given time"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name style as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
Two directions, one standard: two audited under style and two under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
how something is done or how it happens
In the characteristic New York style.
The true synonym
way
Same sentence, swapped: In the characteristic New York way.
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.
- dash
- vogue
- size
the popular taste at a given time
Long skirts were the style that year.
The true synonym
trend
Same sentence, swapped: Long skirts were the trend that year.
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.
- manner
- dash
- culture
Where style turns up in the game
style 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 one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where style is the trap
- bumpnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is blow, in the sense "an impact (as from a collision)", with style sitting one tile away.
Play style
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so style 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 qualities at Foothills outward to the whole bank.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. style carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.