Qualities
Synonyms for dullness
The synonym for dullness recorded in this bank is bluntness, in the sense "without sharpness or clearness of edge or point". 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 dullness
- bluntnessnoun, in the sense "without sharpness or clearness of edge or point"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for dullness.
without sharpness or clearness of edge or point
The dullness of the pencil made his writing illegible.
The true synonym
bluntness
Same sentence, swapped: The bluntness of the pencil made his writing illegible.
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 dullness is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- sharpness
- keenness
- topography
Where dullness turns up in the game
dullness is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where dullness is the trap
- foolishnessnoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is madness, in the sense "the quality of being rash and foolish", so dullness is there to be ruled out.
Play dullness
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so dullness 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 qualities at High Camp outward to the whole bank.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. dullness carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.