States and conditions
Synonyms for dirty
Synonyms for dirty: unclean, contaminating, dingy, foul, soil and sordid. 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 6 synonyms for dirty
Interchangeable with dirty, one per sense
Audited under dirty's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one dirty carries in that sense.
- uncleanadjective, in the sense "soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime"
- contaminatingadjective, in the sense "spreading pollution or contamination"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name dirty as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
Two directions, one standard: two audited under dirty and four under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime
A child in dirty overalls.
The true synonym
unclean
Same sentence, swapped: A child in unclean overalls.
Close but different
The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot dirty is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- cheating
- contaminating
- clean
spreading pollution or contamination
Old power plants still burn dirty fuel.
The true synonym
contaminating
Same sentence, swapped: Old power plants still burn contaminating fuel.
Close but different
Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.
- clean
- angry
- small
Where dirty turns up in the game
dirty is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. 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 dirty is the trap
Play dirty
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so dirty 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 states and conditions at Ridgeline outward to the whole bank.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. dirty carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.