Qualities
Synonyms for hateful
The synonym for hateful recorded in this bank is mean, in the sense "characterized by malice". 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 hateful
- meanadjective, in the sense "characterized by malice"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for hateful.
characterized by malice
A hateful thing to do.
The true synonym
mean
Same sentence, swapped: A mean thing to do.
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.
- obscene
- dire
- infamous
Where hateful turns up in the game
hateful is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. 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 hateful
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so hateful 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 qualities at Ridgeline outward to the whole bank.
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.