Emotions
Synonyms for dolefully
The synonym for dolefully recorded in this bank is lugubriously, in the sense "in a mournful, sorrowful manner". 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 dolefully
- lugubriouslyadverb, in the sense "in a mournful, sorrowful manner"
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 dolefully is audited in a second meaning.
in a mournful, sorrowful manner
The dog stared dolefully at the empty food bowl.
The true synonym
lugubriously
Same sentence, swapped: The dog stared lugubriously at the empty food bowl.
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.
- sleepily
- curiously
- eagerly
Where dolefully turns up in the game
dolefully is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 5, Summit. 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 dolefully
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so dolefully reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. dolefully carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.