States and conditions

Synonyms for infamy

The synonym for infamy recorded in this bank is opprobrium, in the sense "a state of extreme dishonor". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 5, Summit · 1 sense · noun

The synonym for infamy

opprobriumnoun, in the sense "a state of extreme dishonor"

One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day infamy is audited in a second meaning.

The sensenounTier 5, SummitStates and conditions

a state of extreme dishonor

A date which will live in infamy.

One sentence, one sense. Without it the word could be read three other ways.

The true synonym

opprobrium

Same sentence, swapped: A date which will live in opprobrium.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where infamy stands in the sentence above.

fame
sacrilege
iniquity

Where infamy turns up in the game

infamy 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 infamy

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so infamy reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. Everything on it is a stored field, not a run-time composition.

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