Word library
Synonyms for awesome
The synonym for awesome recorded in this bank is amazing, in the sense "inspiring awe or admiration or wonder". 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 awesome
- amazingadjective, in the sense "inspiring awe or admiration or wonder"
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 awesome is audited in a second meaning.
inspiring awe or admiration or wonder
The awesome complexity of the universe.
The true synonym
amazing
Same sentence, swapped: The amazing complexity of the universe.
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.
- large
- holy
- huge
Where awesome turns up in the game
awesome 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 one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where awesome is the trap
- largeadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is magnanimous, in the sense "generous and understanding and tolerant", and awesome is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play awesome
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so awesome reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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awesome carries no theme tag, so the ring starts at Foothills and widens alphabetically.
Every word is an answer somewhere and a trap somewhere else
awesome is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 1. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.