Weather
Synonyms for damp
Synonyms for damp: dank and break. 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 damp
Interchangeable with damp in this sense
Audited under damp's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one damp carries in that sense.
- dankadjective, in the sense "unpleasantly moist and often cold"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name damp as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- breakbreak is a verb in the sense "lessen in force or effect"
Two directions, one standard: one audited under damp and one under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
unpleasantly moist and often cold
Damp air clung to the valley long after the rain had stopped.
The true synonym
dank
Same sentence, swapped: Dank air clung to the valley long after the rain had stopped.
Close but different
The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot damp is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- arid
- torrid
- brittle
Where damp turns up in the game
damp is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in three other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where damp is the trap
- fertileadjective, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is rich, in the sense "producing abundant vegetation or crops", so damp is there to be ruled out.
- hinderadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is back, in the sense "located at or near the back of an animal", and damp is on the board beside it.
- repelverb, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is repulse, in the sense "force or drive back", and damp is on the board beside it.
Play damp
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so damp 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 weather words at Ridgeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. damp carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.