Emotions
Synonyms for mournful
The synonym for mournful recorded in this bank is doleful, in the sense "filled with or evoking sadness". 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 mournful
- dolefuladjective, in the sense "filled with or evoking sadness"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and mournful carries one sense so far.
filled with or evoking sadness
Stared with mournful eyes.
The true synonym
doleful
Same sentence, swapped: Stared with doleful eyes.
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.
- deplorable
- poignant
- petulant
Where mournful turns up in the game
mournful is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. 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 mournful
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so mournful 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 emotions is the company mournful keeps.
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Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. The daily stack climbs from tier one to tier five, and every answer shows the meaning it was audited in.