Giving and transferring
Synonyms for willing
The synonym for willing recorded in this bank is eager, in the sense "ready and glad to do or give something without needing persuasion". 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 willing
- eageradjective, in the sense "ready and glad to do or give something without needing persuasion"
One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day willing is audited in a second meaning.
ready and glad to do or give something without needing persuasion
Willing donors lined up outside the blood bank before it even opened.
The true synonym
eager
Same sentence, swapped: Eager donors lined up outside the blood bank before it even opened.
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.
- nervous
- tired
- curious
Where willing turns up in the game
willing is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. 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 willing is the trap
- decisionnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is conclusion, in the sense "the act of making up your mind about something", and willing is on the board beside it.
- votenoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is voting, in the sense "a choice that is made by counting the number of people in favor of each alternative", and willing is one of the three tiles that lose.
- trialnoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is tryout, in the sense "trying something to find out about it", and willing is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play willing
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so willing 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 giving and transferring words at Foothills, 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. willing carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.