Communication
Synonyms for theme
Synonyms for theme: subject and motif. 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 2 synonyms for theme
- subjectnoun, in the sense "the subject matter of a conversation or discussion"
- motifnoun, in the sense "a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in literary or artistic work"
Each of these belongs to a different sense of theme, which is why the meaning beside them changes down the list.
the subject matter of a conversation or discussion
His letters were always on the theme of love.
The true synonym
subject
Same sentence, swapped: His letters were always on the subject of love.
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.
- base
- paper
- aside
a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in literary or artistic work
It was the usual 'boy gets girl' theme.
The true synonym
motif
Same sentence, swapped: It was the usual 'boy gets girl' motif.
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.
- base
- paper
- impression
Where theme turns up in the game
theme 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 three other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where theme is the trap
- edgeverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is border, in the sense "provide with a border or edge", and theme is on the board beside it.
- ideanoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is thought, in the sense "the content of cognition", and theme is one of the three tiles that lose.
- ideanoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is estimate, in the sense "an approximate calculation of quantity or degree or worth", and theme is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play theme
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so theme 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 communication words at Foothills, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. theme carries 2 written reason lines, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.