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Synonyms for addled
The synonym for addled recorded in this bank is woolly, in the sense "confused and vague". 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 addled
- woollyadjective, in the sense "confused and vague"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and addled carries one sense so far.
confused and vague
Your addled little brain.
The true synonym
woolly
Same sentence, swapped: Your woolly little brain.
Close but different
The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.
- maudlin
- sodden
- besotted
Where addled turns up in the game
addled is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. 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 addled
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so addled reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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