Shapes

Synonyms for knotted

One audited sense, one true synonym, and three words that come close enough to cost you the rung.

Tier 3, Ridgeline · 1 sense · adjective

The senseadjectiveTier 3, RidgelineShapes

used of old persons or old trees

His knotted hands had worked the fields for sixty years.

The sentence the app shows, and the only thing that settles which meaning is meant.

The true synonym

gnarly

Same sentence, swapped: His gnarly hands had worked the fields for sixty years.

Close but different

These are the other three tiles the game puts on screen for this sense. Each one is a real word with a real meaning, and none of them is a synonym for knotted as it is used in the sentence above.

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elaborate
combined

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Closest first: other shapes words at Ridgeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.

emptinessnounvacuuman empty area or spaceRidgelineHas a reason line forknouncrotchthe region of the angle formed by the junction of two branchesRidgeline halonounringa toroidal shapeRidgeline ellipsenounovala closed plane curve resulting from the intersection of a circular cone and a plane cutting completely through itHigh Camp foldnounbendan angular or rounded shape made by foldingTreelineHas a reason line blandadjectiveflatlacking stimulating characteristicsRidgeline2 sensesHas a reason line blanketnounmantleanything that coversRidgelineHas a reason line blastverbshellcreate by using explosivesFoothills2 sensesHas a reason line

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