Groups and collections
Synonyms for motley
The synonym for motley recorded in this bank is assorted, in the sense "made up of a mixture of very different people or things". 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 motley
- assortedadjective, in the sense "made up of a mixture of very different people or things"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for motley.
made up of a mixture of very different people or things
The volunteers' raincoats looked motley, patched together from three different closets.
The true synonym
assorted
Same sentence, swapped: The volunteers' raincoats looked assorted, patched together from three different closets.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for motley in the sentence quoted.
- uniform
- matching
- elite
Where motley turns up in the game
motley is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play motley
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so motley reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because groups and collections is the company motley keeps.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. motley carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.