Qualities
Synonyms for cute
The synonym for cute recorded in this bank is precious, in the sense "obviously contrived to charm". 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 cute
- preciousadjective, in the sense "obviously contrived to charm"
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 cute is audited in a second meaning.
obviously contrived to charm
A child with intolerably cute mannerisms.
The true synonym
precious
Same sentence, swapped: A child with intolerably precious mannerisms.
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.
- excellent
- knowing
- quick
Where cute turns up in the game
cute 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 cute is the trap
- knowingadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is knowledgeable, in the sense "alert and fully informed", and cute is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play cute
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so cute 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 cute keeps.
Every word is an answer somewhere and a trap somewhere else
cute 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.