Qualities
Synonyms for lanky
The synonym for lanky recorded in this bank is gangly, in the sense "tall and thin and having long slender limbs". 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 lanky
- ganglyadjective, in the sense "tall and thin and having long slender limbs"
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 lanky is audited in a second meaning.
tall and thin and having long slender limbs
A lanky kid transformed almost overnight into a handsome young man.
The true synonym
gangly
Same sentence, swapped: A gangly kid transformed almost overnight into a handsome young man.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where lanky stands in the sentence above.
- angular
- gaunt
- skeletal
Where lanky turns up in the game
lanky is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. 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 lanky is the trap
- burlyadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is brawny, in the sense "large and strongly built", so lanky is there to be ruled out.
Play lanky
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so lanky reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other qualities words at High Camp, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
One vocabulary, two jobs
lanky is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 1. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.