Emotions
Synonyms for jealous
The synonym for jealous recorded in this bank is envious, in the sense "feeling resentful envy of someone's achievements or advantages". 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 jealous
- enviousadjective, in the sense "feeling resentful envy of someone's achievements or advantages"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and jealous carries one sense so far.
feeling resentful envy of someone's achievements or advantages
He grew jealous when his brother got all the attention at the party.
The true synonym
envious
Same sentence, swapped: He grew envious when his brother got all the attention at the party.
Close but different
The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot jealous is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- grateful
- cheerful
- ashamed
Where jealous turns up in the game
jealous is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. 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 jealous
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so jealous 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 Foothills outward to the whole bank.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. jealous carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.