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Synonyms for desperate
The synonym for desperate recorded in this bank is dire, in the sense "fraught with extreme danger". 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 desperate
- direadjective, in the sense "fraught with extreme danger"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for desperate.
fraught with extreme danger
On all fronts the Allies were in a desperate situation due to lack of materiel.
The true synonym
dire
Same sentence, swapped: On all fronts the Allies were in a dire situation due to lack of materiel.
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.
- heroic
- despairing
- violent
Where desperate turns up in the game
desperate is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play desperate
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so desperate reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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desperate carries no theme tag, so the ring starts at Ridgeline and widens alphabetically.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. desperate carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.