Qualities
Synonyms for dead
Synonyms for dead: drained and numb. 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 dead
- drainedadjective, in the sense "drained of electric charge"
- numbadjective, in the sense "not showing human feeling or sensitivity"
All two are filed under dead's own senses, one synonym per sense, each read by a human before it shipped.
drained of electric charge
A dead battery.
The true synonym
drained
Same sentence, swapped: A drained battery.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- numb
- idle
- most
not showing human feeling or sensitivity
Passersby were dead to our plea for help.
The true synonym
numb
Same sentence, swapped: Passersby were numb to our plea for help.
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 dead in the sentence quoted.
- beat
- idle
- most
Where dead turns up in the game
dead is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across Tier 2, Treeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in four other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where dead is the trap
- lateadjective, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is former, in the sense "of the immediate past", and dead is one of the three tiles that lose.
- momentnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is bit, in the sense "an indefinitely short time", and dead is one of the three tiles that lose.
- whiteadjective, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is clean, in the sense "not written or printed on", so dead is there to be ruled out.
- faintadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is timid, in the sense "lacking conviction or boldness or courage", and dead is on the board beside it.
Play dead
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so dead 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 qualities words at Treeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. dead carries 2 written reason lines, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.