States and conditions
Synonyms for bourgeois
The synonym for bourgeois recorded in this bank is conservative, in the sense "conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class". 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 bourgeois
- conservativeadjective, in the sense "conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for bourgeois.
conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class
A bourgeois mentality.
The true synonym
conservative
Same sentence, swapped: A conservative mentality.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where bourgeois stands in the sentence above.
- anal
- uptight
- rough
Where bourgeois turns up in the game
bourgeois is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. 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 bourgeois is the trap
- bearernoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is holder, in the sense "the person who is in possession of a check or note or bond or document of title that is endorsed to them or to whoever holds it", and bourgeois is on the board beside it.
Play bourgeois
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so bourgeois reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from states and conditions at Treeline outward to the whole bank.
Every word is an answer somewhere and a trap somewhere else
bourgeois 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.