Qualities
Synonyms for poor
Synonyms for poor: short and pathetic. 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 poor
Interchangeable with poor in this sense
Audited under poor's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one poor carries in that sense.
- shortadjective, in the sense "of insufficient quantity to meet a need"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name poor as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- patheticpathetic is an adjective in the sense "deserving or inciting pity"
Two directions, one standard: one audited under poor and one under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
of insufficient quantity to meet a need
Their rations were poor and the winter was long.
The true synonym
short
Same sentence, swapped: Their rations were short and the winter was long.
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.
- pathetic
- least
- broke
Where poor turns up in the game
poor 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 four other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where poor is the trap
- irregularadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is unorthodox, in the sense "independent in behavior or thought", with poor sitting one tile away.
- shortadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is curt, in the sense "marked by rude or peremptory shortness", and poor is one of the three tiles that lose.
- smalladjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is diminished, in the sense "made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth)", so poor is there to be ruled out.
- shortadjective, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is myopic, in the sense "lacking foresight or scope", and poor is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play poor
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so poor reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from qualities at Foothills outward to the whole bank.
The same bank, read from both sides
poor 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.