Competition
Synonyms for underdog
The synonym for underdog recorded in this bank is longshot, in the sense "a competitor given little chance of winning". 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 underdog
- longshotnoun, in the sense "a competitor given little chance of winning"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and underdog carries one sense so far.
a competitor given little chance of winning
Nobody expected the underdog to reach the final, let alone win it.
The true synonym
longshot
Same sentence, swapped: Nobody expected the longshot to reach the final, let alone win it.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for underdog in the sentence quoted.
- veteran
- mascot
- hopeful
Where underdog turns up in the game
underdog is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. 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 underdog is the trap
- frontrunnernoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is favorite, in the sense "the competitor considered most likely to win", with underdog sitting one tile away.
Play underdog
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so underdog reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because competition is the company underdog keeps.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. underdog carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.