Nature
Synonyms for grainy
The synonym for grainy recorded in this bank is gritty, in the sense "composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency". 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 grainy
- grittyadjective, in the sense "composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for grainy.
composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency
The sauce was grainy instead of smooth.
The true synonym
gritty
Same sentence, swapped: The sauce was gritty instead of smooth.
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.
- choppy
- pitted
- unkempt
Where grainy turns up in the game
grainy is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. 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 grainy
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so grainy reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because nature is the company grainy keeps.
Climb the library a rung at a time
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