Emotions
Synonyms for guilty
Synonyms for guilty: shamed and ashamed. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for guilty
Interchangeable with guilty in this sense
Audited under guilty's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one guilty carries in that sense.
- shamedadjective, in the sense "showing a sense of guilt"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name guilty as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- ashamedashamed is an adjective in the sense "feeling embarrassment or guilt over one's actions"
Two directions, one standard: one audited under guilty and one under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
showing a sense of guilt
A guilty look.
The true synonym
shamed
Same sentence, swapped: A shamed look.
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.
- responsible
- involved
- criminal
Where guilty turns up in the game
guilty 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 three other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where guilty is the trap
- involvedadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is tangled, in the sense "highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious", with guilty sitting one tile away.
- involvedadjective, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is mired, in the sense "entangled or hindered as if e.g. in mire", with guilty sitting one tile away.
- responsibleadjective, Tier 5, Summit. The answer there is creditworthy, in the sense "having an acceptable credit rating", and guilty is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play guilty
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so guilty 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 emotions at Ridgeline outward to the whole bank.
One vocabulary, two jobs
guilty is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 3. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.