Qualities
Synonyms for wide
Synonyms for wide: full, spacious and broad. 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 3 synonyms for wide
Interchangeable with wide, one per sense
Audited under wide's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one wide carries in that sense.
- fulladjective, in the sense "having ample fabric"
- spaciousadjective, in the sense "very large in expanse or scope"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name wide as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- broadbroad is an adjective in the sense "broad in scope or content"
Two directions, one standard: two audited under wide and one under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
having ample fabric
The current taste for wide trousers.
wide in 2 more sentences, same sense
- The tailor recommended a wide cut for the jacket so his shoulders would not feel constrained.
- She prefers wide sleeves on winter coats because they layer easily over sweaters.
How it behaves: In this sense wide typically modifies a noun for a garment or its parts, such as trousers, sleeves, or a cut, and sits in ordinary descriptive or fashion-related registers.
The true synonym
full
Same sentence, swapped: The current taste for full trousers.
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 wide is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- blanket
- false
- central
Opposites, in this sense
narrow, tight and skinny reverse wide as it is used in the sentence above. A different sense of wide takes different opposites, which is why these sit inside the sense and not at the top of the page.
- narrow
- tight
- skinny
very large in expanse or scope
The wide plains.
The true synonym
spacious
Same sentence, swapped: The spacious plains.
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 wide is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- blanket
- false
- central
Where wide turns up in the game
wide 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 wide is the trap
- centraladjective, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is key, in the sense "serving as an essential component", and wide is one of the three tiles that lose.
- fulladjective, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is total, in the sense "complete in extent or degree and in every particular", and wide is on the board beside it.
- falseadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is sour, in the sense "inaccurate in pitch", and wide is on the board beside it.
Play wide
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so wide reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from qualities at Foothills outward to the whole bank.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. wide carries 2 written reason lines, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.