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Synonyms for crying
Synonyms for crying: gross and tears. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for crying
- grossadjective, in the sense "conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible"
- tearsnoun, in the sense "the process of shedding tears (usually accompanied by sobs or other inarticulate sounds)"
All two are filed under crying's own senses, one synonym per sense, each read by a human before it shipped.
conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
A crying shame.
The true synonym
gross
Same sentence, swapped: A gross shame.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for crying in the sentence quoted.
- instant
- screaming
- burning
the process of shedding tears (usually accompanied by sobs or other inarticulate sounds)
Her crying finally stopped after several long minutes.
The true synonym
tears
Same sentence, swapped: Her tears finally stopped after several long minutes.
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.
- sleeping
- control
- screaming
Where crying turns up in the game
crying is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across 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 crying is the trap
- screamingadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is hilarious, in the sense "marked by or causing boisterous merriment or convulsive laughter", so crying is there to be ruled out.
Play crying
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so crying reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other actions words at Foothills, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. crying carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.