Qualities
Synonyms for lumbering
The synonym for lumbering recorded in this bank is heavy, in the sense "slow and laborious because of weight". 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 lumbering
- heavyadjective, in the sense "slow and laborious because of weight"
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 lumbering is audited in a second meaning.
slow and laborious because of weight
Moved with a lumbering sag-bellied trot.
The true synonym
heavy
Same sentence, swapped: Moved with a heavy sag-bellied trot.
Close but different
The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.
- faltering
- bungling
- boorish
Where lumbering turns up in the game
lumbering 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 lumbering is the trap
- boorishadjective, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is neanderthal, in the sense "ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance", with lumbering sitting one tile away.
Play lumbering
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so lumbering 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.
Every word is an answer somewhere and a trap somewhere else
lumbering 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.