States and conditions

Synonyms for sadness

The synonym for sadness recorded in this bank is sorrow, in the sense "the state of being sad". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 2, Treeline · 1 sense · noun · a wrong tile in 2 puzzles

The synonym for sadness

sorrownoun, in the sense "the state of being sad"

A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for sadness.

The sensenounTier 2, TreelineStates and conditions

the state of being sad

She tired of his perpetual sadness.

The sentence the game shows, and the only thing that settles which meaning is meant.

The true synonym

sorrow

Same sentence, swapped: She tired of his perpetual sorrow.

Close but different

Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.

despair
darkness
sobriety

Where sadness turns up in the game

sadness 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 two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.

The puzzles where sadness is the trap

agonynoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is torment, in the sense "intense feelings of suffering", with sadness sitting one tile away.
despairnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is desperation, in the sense "a state in which all hope is lost or absent", with sadness sitting one tile away.

Play sadness

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

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. Nothing on it is written while the page is built.

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The same bank, read from both sides

sadness is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 2. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.

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