Nature

Synonyms for rugged

Synonyms for rugged: craggy and furrowed. 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.

2 synonyms · Tier 2, Treeline · 1 sense · adjective · 1 reason line · a wrong tile in 1 puzzle

The 2 synonyms for rugged

Interchangeable with rugged in this sense

Audited under rugged's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one rugged carries in that sense.

craggyadjective, in the sense "having a rough, rocky, uneven surface"

Recorded from the other side of the pair

These entries were written under the other word and name rugged as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.

furrowedfurrowed is an adjective in the sense "having long narrow shallow depressions (as grooves or wrinkles) in the surface"

Two directions, one standard: one audited under rugged and one under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.

The senseadjectiveTier 2, TreelineNature

having a rough, rocky, uneven surface

The coastline here is rugged, with jagged rocks and steep cliffs.

This is the whole of what a player sees before choosing. The meaning has to come out of it.

The true synonym

craggy

Same sentence, swapped: The coastline here is craggy, with jagged rocks and steep cliffs.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for rugged in the sentence quoted.

scenic
coastal
remote

Where rugged turns up in the game

rugged 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 one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.

The puzzle where rugged is the trap

stoutadjective, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is portly, in the sense "euphemisms for 'fat'", so rugged is there to be ruled out.

Play rugged

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so rugged reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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Closest first: other nature words at Treeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.

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The wrong tile gets explained too

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