Qualities
Synonyms for barbarous
The synonym for barbarous recorded in this bank is fell, in the sense "able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering". 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 barbarous
- felladjective, in the sense "able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and barbarous carries one sense so far.
able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering
A barbarous crime.
The true synonym
fell
Same sentence, swapped: A fell crime.
Close but different
Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.
- improper
- illiterate
- faulty
Where barbarous turns up in the game
barbarous 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 barbarous
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so barbarous 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 barbarous 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.