Qualities
Synonyms for absurdity
The synonym for absurdity recorded in this bank is silliness, in the sense "a ludicrous folly". 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 absurdity
- sillinessnoun, in the sense "a ludicrous folly"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and absurdity carries one sense so far.
a ludicrous folly
The crowd laughed at the absurdity of the clown's behavior.
The true synonym
silliness
Same sentence, swapped: The crowd laughed at the silliness of the clown's behavior.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where absurdity stands in the sentence above.
- indiscretion
- futility
- jargon
Where absurdity turns up in the game
absurdity is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. 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 absurdity
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so absurdity 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 qualities is the company absurdity keeps.
One word a day, five rungs, and a sentence under each
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. The daily stack climbs from tier one to tier five, and every answer shows the meaning it was audited in.