Qualities
Synonyms for boring
The synonym for boring recorded in this bank is slow, in the sense "so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness". 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 boring
- slowadjective, in the sense "so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and boring carries one sense so far.
so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness
A boring evening with uninteresting people.
The true synonym
slow
Same sentence, swapped: A slow evening with uninteresting people.
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.
- gray
- tiring
- stale
Where boring turns up in the game
boring is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. 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 boring
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so boring reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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