Contact and joining
Synonyms for tactile
The synonym for tactile recorded in this bank is haptic, in the sense "relating to or perceived through the sense of touch". 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 tactile
- hapticadjective, in the sense "relating to or perceived through the sense of touch"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for tactile.
relating to or perceived through the sense of touch
The museum's new wing features tactile displays that blind visitors can explore by hand.
The true synonym
haptic
Same sentence, swapped: The museum's new wing features haptic displays that blind visitors can explore by hand.
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 tactile is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- audible
- visual
- olfactory
Where tactile turns up in the game
tactile is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. 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 tactile
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so tactile 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 contact and joining words at High Camp, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. tactile carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.