Groups and collections
Synonyms for wholesale
The synonym for wholesale recorded in this bank is outright, in the sense "affecting a whole group all at once, without exception". 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 wholesale
- outrightadverb, in the sense "affecting a whole group all at once, without exception"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and wholesale carries one sense so far.
affecting a whole group all at once, without exception
The new owners dismissed the staff wholesale.
The true synonym
outright
Same sentence, swapped: The new owners dismissed the staff outright.
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 wholesale is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- selectively
- gradually
- quietly
Where wholesale turns up in the game
wholesale 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 wholesale
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so wholesale 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 groups and collections words at Treeline, 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. wholesale carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.