Qualities
Synonyms for defect
Synonyms for defect: shortcoming and blemish. 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 defect
Interchangeable with defect in this sense
Audited under defect's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one defect carries in that sense.
- shortcomingnoun, in the sense "a failing or deficiency"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name defect as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- blemishblemish is a noun in the sense "a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body)"
The first group is filed under defect's own sense. The second reaches defect from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside it is that word's.
a failing or deficiency
That interpretation is an unfortunate defect of our lack of information.
The true synonym
shortcoming
Same sentence, swapped: That interpretation is an unfortunate shortcoming of our lack of information.
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 defect in the sentence quoted.
- mar
- inferiority
- penalty
Where defect turns up in the game
defect is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. 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 defect is the trap
- blightverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is plague, in the sense "cause to suffer a blight", with defect sitting one tile away.
Play defect
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so defect 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 qualities at High Camp outward to the whole bank.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. defect carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.