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Synonyms for depressed
The synonym for depressed recorded in this bank is down, in the sense "lower than previously". 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 depressed
- downadjective, in the sense "lower than previously"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for depressed.
lower than previously
The market is depressed.
The true synonym
down
Same sentence, swapped: The market is down.
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.
- anxious
- unfortunate
- unhappy
Where depressed turns up in the game
depressed 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 two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where depressed is the trap
- squatadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is chunky, in the sense "short and thick", so depressed is there to be ruled out.
- boredadjective, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is blase, in the sense "uninterested because of frequent exposure or indulgence", so depressed is there to be ruled out.
Play depressed
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so depressed reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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depressed carries no theme tag, so the ring starts at Foothills and widens alphabetically.
One vocabulary, two jobs
depressed is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 2. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.