States and conditions
Synonyms for mess
The synonym for mess recorded in this bank is muss, in the sense "a state of confusion and disorderliness". 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 mess
- mussnoun, in the sense "a state of confusion and disorderliness"
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 mess is audited in a second meaning.
a state of confusion and disorderliness
The house was a mess.
The true synonym
muss
Same sentence, swapped: The house was a muss.
Close but different
Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.
- plenty
- disorganization
- bit
Where mess turns up in the game
mess is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in four other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where mess is the trap
- dealnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is trade, in the sense "a particular instance of buying or selling", and mess is one of the three tiles that lose.
- fixnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is location, in the sense "a determination of the place where something is", so mess is there to be ruled out.
- mistakenoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is fault, in the sense "a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention", and mess is on the board beside it.
- upsetnoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is turnover, in the sense "the act of upsetting something", so mess is there to be ruled out.
Play mess
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so mess 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 states and conditions words at Ridgeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
The same bank, read from both sides
mess is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 4. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.