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Synonyms for rickety
The synonym for rickety recorded in this bank is unstable, in the sense "likely to collapse, shaky and poorly constructed". 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 rickety
- unstableadjective, in the sense "likely to collapse, shaky and poorly constructed"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for rickety.
likely to collapse, shaky and poorly constructed
The rickety old chair creaked and swayed whenever he sat down.
The true synonym
unstable
Same sentence, swapped: The unstable old chair creaked and swayed whenever he sat down.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- polished
- ornate
- spacious
Where rickety turns up in the game
rickety 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 two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where rickety is the trap
- shriveledadjective, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is shrunken, in the sense "reduced in efficacy or vitality or intensity", so rickety is there to be ruled out.
- fossilizedadjective, Tier 5, Summit. The answer there is ossified, in the sense "set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behavior, habits, or beliefs", so rickety is there to be ruled out.
Play rickety
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so rickety 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 objects at Foothills outward to the whole bank.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. rickety carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.