Qualities

Synonyms for fussy

The synonym for fussy recorded in this bank is busy, in the sense "overcrowded or cluttered with detail". 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 · 1 reason line · a wrong tile in 2 puzzles

The synonym for fussy

busyadjective, in the sense "overcrowded or cluttered with detail"

That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and fussy carries one sense so far.

The senseadjectiveTier 3, RidgelineQualities

overcrowded or cluttered with detail

A fussy design.

The context the game gives you. The gloss above is for readers here, not for players there.

The true synonym

busy

Same sentence, swapped: A busy design.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for fussy in the sentence quoted.

picky
grumpy
punctual

Where fussy turns up in the game

fussy is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. 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 fussy is the trap

busyadjective, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is engaged, in the sense "unavailable for use by anyone else or indicating unavailability", with fussy sitting one tile away.
busyadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is interfering, in the sense "intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner", with fussy sitting one tile away.

Play fussy

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so fussy reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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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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The wrong tile gets explained too

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