States and conditions
Synonyms for ill
The synonym for ill recorded in this bank is sick, in the sense "affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function". 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 ill
- sickadjective, in the sense "affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and ill carries one sense so far.
affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function
Ill from the monotony of his suffering.
The true synonym
sick
Same sentence, swapped: Sick from the monotony of his suffering.
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.
- ominous
- rude
- evil
Where ill turns up in the game
ill is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where ill is the trap
- sickadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is disgusted, in the sense "having a strong distaste from surfeit", with ill sitting one tile away.
Play ill
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so ill 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 states and conditions at Foothills outward to the whole bank.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. ill carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.