Qualities

Synonyms for gawky

The synonym for gawky recorded in this bank is clumsy, in the sense "lacking grace in movement or posture". 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 4, High Camp · 1 sense · adjective · a wrong tile in 2 puzzles

The synonym for gawky

clumsyadjective, in the sense "lacking grace in movement or posture"

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

The senseadjectiveTier 4, High CampQualities

lacking grace in movement or posture

A gawky lad with long ungainly legs.

One sentence, one sense. Without it the word could be read three other ways.

The true synonym

clumsy

Same sentence, swapped: A clumsy lad with long ungainly legs.

Close but different

The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.

scraggy
undersized
underweight

Where gawky turns up in the game

gawky 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 two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.

The puzzles where gawky is the trap

skeletaladjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is wasted, in the sense "very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold", and gawky is one of the three tiles that lose.
hulkingadjective, Tier 5, Summit. The answer there is hulky, in the sense "of great size and bulk", with gawky sitting one tile away.

Play gawky

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so gawky 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. No sentence here is generated at deploy time.

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Every word is an answer somewhere and a trap somewhere else

gawky is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 2. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.

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