Qualities
Synonyms for nasty
Synonyms for nasty: awful and tight. 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 nasty
Interchangeable with nasty in this sense
Audited under nasty's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one nasty carries in that sense.
- awfuladjective, in the sense "offensive or even (of persons) malicious"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name nasty as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- tighttight is an adjective in the sense "exasperatingly difficult to handle or circumvent"
The first group is filed under nasty's own sense. The second reaches nasty from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside it is that word's.
offensive or even (of persons) malicious
A nasty trick to pull.
The true synonym
awful
Same sentence, swapped: A awful trick to pull.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where nasty stands in the sentence above.
- tight
- smutty
- spoiled
Where nasty turns up in the game
nasty is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. 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 nasty is the trap
- tightadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is taut, in the sense "pulled or drawn tight", so nasty is there to be ruled out.
Play nasty
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so nasty 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 qualities is the company nasty keeps.
The same bank, read from both sides
nasty 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.