Groups and collections
Synonyms for religious
The synonym for religious recorded in this bank is spiritual, in the sense "concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church". 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 religious
- spiritualadjective, in the sense "concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for religious.
concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church
A member of a religious order.
The true synonym
spiritual
Same sentence, swapped: A member of a spiritual order.
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.
- express
- scientific
- critical
Where religious turns up in the game
religious 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 four other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where religious is the trap
- rigidadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is set, in the sense "fixed and unmoving", and religious is one of the three tiles that lose.
- sacredadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is consecrated, in the sense "made or declared or believed to be holy", so religious is there to be ruled out.
- sacredadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is hallowed, in the sense "worthy of religious veneration", so religious is there to be ruled out.
- sanctimoniousadjective, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is priggish, in the sense "making a show of being morally superior to others", so religious is there to be ruled out.
Play religious
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so religious 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 groups and collections at Treeline outward to the whole bank.
One vocabulary, two jobs
religious 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.