Wordie: So near and yet so far: Comments

Comment by uselessness, about 1 year ago

Tue, 13 Mar 2007 21:23:19 +0000

brother? On second though, those words are synonyms.
So how about bather?

Comment by oroboros, about 1 year ago

Tue, 13 Mar 2007 20:52:10 +0000

botcher

Comment by sionnach, about 1 year ago

Tue, 13 Mar 2007 15:43:32 +0000

new starter word is bother

Comment by oroboros, about 1 year ago

Sun, 11 Mar 2007 21:37:59 +0000

grape

Comment by sionnach, about 1 year ago

Sun, 11 Mar 2007 15:04:02 +0000

or grace, gravy, grate

Comment by trivet, about 1 year ago

Sun, 11 Mar 2007 13:56:47 +0000

graze - as opposed to a grave injury?
rave - instead of being gravely serious?

Comment by uselessness, about 1 year ago

Sat, 10 Mar 2007 19:04:04 +0000

Nothing wrong with insanity. :-)
How about grove? I like the contrast between the place of death and the place of life.

Comment by sionnach, about 1 year ago

Sat, 10 Mar 2007 18:47:43 +0000

Hmmm. Interesting. deadliness was what I had in mind, but headlines works just as well, if not better. I wasn't requiring antonyms, just that the two words be 'far apart' in meaning. This is obviously not a well-defined idea. Depending on your point of view, that makes things more interesting, by opening up the possibilities, or less so, because it might open up too many possibilities.

I'm going to add both headlines and deadliness. Let's try one more starter word.

grave

On edit; I think that what will make this list interesting is to find starter words that afford the greatest number of options.

Well, interesting to me, anyway. Other folks probably think I'm insane.

Comment by oroboros, about 1 year ago

Sat, 10 Mar 2007 17:28:35 +0000

I can imagine deadlines being dreadlines, but I'll bet that's not what's wanted here.

deadliness?

Comment by uselessness, about 1 year ago

Sat, 10 Mar 2007 17:06:07 +0000

Are word 1 and word 2 supposed to be antonyms of one another? Or just unreleated? If I'm understanding the rules right, I guess headlines...?

Comment by sionnach, about 1 year ago

Sat, 10 Mar 2007 16:44:29 +0000

To make things interesting, I will start out by listing only one of the pair I have in mind, so that folks can guess the other. To be clear: "differing by one letter" means that word 1 can be changed to word 2 in one of three ways - adding a letter, deleting an existing letter, changing an existing letter. Swapping the position of two existing letters (e.g. CRAVE/CARVE) does not count.