The body
Synonyms for surgical
The synonym for surgical recorded in this bank is operative, in the sense "relating to or requiring or amenable to treatment by surgery especially as opposed to medicine". 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 surgical
- operativeadjective, in the sense "relating to or requiring or amenable to treatment by surgery especially as opposed to medicine"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and surgical carries one sense so far.
relating to or requiring or amenable to treatment by surgery especially as opposed to medicine
The nurse reviewed the surgical notes before the patient woke up.
The true synonym
operative
Same sentence, swapped: The nurse reviewed the operative notes before the patient woke up.
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.
- medical
- dental
- clinical
Where surgical turns up in the game
surgical is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play surgical
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so surgical reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. The daily stack climbs from tier one to tier five, and every answer shows the meaning it was audited in.