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Synonyms for gingerly
The synonym for gingerly recorded in this bank is carefully, in the sense "in a careful, cautious manner, especially to avoid damage or harm". 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 gingerly
- carefullyadverb, in the sense "in a careful, cautious manner, especially to avoid damage or harm"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for gingerly.
in a careful, cautious manner, especially to avoid damage or harm
She picked up the shattered vase gingerly, mindful of the sharp edges.
The true synonym
carefully
Same sentence, swapped: She picked up the shattered vase carefully, mindful of the sharp edges.
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.
- hastily
- casually
- roughly
Where gingerly turns up in the game
gingerly is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. 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 gingerly
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so gingerly reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other objects words at Treeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. gingerly carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.