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Synonyms for delicious

The synonym for delicious recorded in this bank is delightful, in the sense "greatly pleasing or entertaining". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 2, Treeline · 1 sense · adjective · a wrong tile in 1 puzzle

The synonym for delicious

delightfuladjective, in the sense "greatly pleasing or entertaining"

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 delicious is audited in a second meaning.

The senseadjectiveTier 2, Treeline

greatly pleasing or entertaining

A delicious joke.

The context the game gives you. The gloss above is for readers here, not for players there.

The true synonym

delightful

Same sentence, swapped: A delightful joke.

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.

solid
heavy
tough

Where delicious turns up in the game

delicious is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. 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 delicious is the trap

palatableadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is tolerable, in the sense "acceptable or agreeable to the taste", so delicious is there to be ruled out.

Play delicious

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so delicious reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. Everything on it is a stored field, not a run-time composition.

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delicious carries no theme tag, so the ring starts at Treeline and widens alphabetically.

mortifiedadjectivehumiliatedfeeling deep embarrassment or shameTreelineEmotionsHas a reason line motivationnounneedthe psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goalTreeline motleyadjectiveassortedmade up of a mixture of very different people or thingsTreelineGroups and collectionsHas a reason line mountnoun, verbsettinga mounting consisting of a piece of metal (as in a ring or other jewelry) that holds a gem in placeTreelineObjects2 sensesHas a reason line movementnounmotionan optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving objectFoothillsNature2 sensesHas a reason line muffledadjectivedullbeing or made softer or less loud or clearTreeline murmuringadjectivewhisperingmaking a low continuous indistinct soundTreelineCommunication muscularadjectivebrawnyhaving well-developed muscles, physically strong-lookingTreelineThe bodyHas a reason line

The same bank, read from both sides

delicious 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.

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