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Synonyms for mild
Synonyms for mild: soft and balmy. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for mild
Interchangeable with mild in this sense
Audited under mild's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one mild carries in that sense.
- softadjective, in the sense "mild and pleasant"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name mild as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- balmybalmy is an adjective in the sense "pleasantly warm and mild"
one of these comes from mild's own entry in the bank, and one was audited from the other word's side of the pair. Both directions were read by a human, and only the sense quoted differs.
mild and pleasant
The climate was mild and conducive to life or growth.
The true synonym
soft
Same sentence, swapped: The climate was soft and conducive to life or growth.
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 mild is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- modest
- tropical
- thermal
Where mild turns up in the game
mild is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in three other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where mild is the trap
- acridadjective, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is bitter, in the sense "having an unpleasantly sharp, bitter taste or smell", with mild sitting one tile away.
- modestadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is small, in the sense "relatively moderate, limited, or small", and mild is one of the three tiles that lose.
- scrappyadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is tenacious, in the sense "determined and willing to fight hard despite a disadvantage", and mild is on the board beside it.
Play mild
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so mild 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 materials words at Treeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. mild carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.