Qualities
Synonyms for hardness
The synonym for hardness recorded in this bank is ruggedness, in the sense "the quality of being difficult to do". 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 hardness
- ruggednessnoun, in the sense "the quality of being difficult to do"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for hardness.
the quality of being difficult to do
The hardness of the climb tested even the guides.
The true synonym
ruggedness
Same sentence, swapped: The ruggedness of the climb tested even the guides.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where hardness stands in the sentence above.
- stiffness
- callousness
- quandary
Where hardness turns up in the game
hardness is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 5, Summit. 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 hardness
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so hardness 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 qualities words at Summit, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
One word a day, five rungs, and a sentence under each
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. The daily stack climbs from tier one to tier five, and every answer shows the meaning it was audited in.