People and roles

Synonyms for dopey

The synonym for dopey recorded in this bank is foolish, in the sense "having or revealing stupidity". 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 3, Ridgeline · 1 sense · adjective

The synonym for dopey

foolishadjective, in the sense "having or revealing stupidity"

A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for dopey.

The senseadjectiveTier 3, RidgelinePeople and roles

having or revealing stupidity

A dopey kid.

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The true synonym

foolish

Same sentence, swapped: A foolish kid.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where dopey stands in the sentence above.

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Where dopey turns up in the game

dopey 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.

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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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