States and conditions
Synonyms for shady
The synonym for shady recorded in this bank is shadowy, in the sense "filled with shade". 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 shady
- shadowyadjective, in the sense "filled with shade"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and shady carries one sense so far.
filled with shade
The shady side of the street.
The true synonym
shadowy
Same sentence, swapped: The shadowy side of the street.
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.
- fishy
- salty
- sinister
Where shady turns up in the game
shady is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in three other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where shady is the trap
- sinisteradjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is black, in the sense "stemming from evil characteristics or forces", and shady is on the board beside it.
- spicyadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is hot, in the sense "producing a burning sensation on the taste nerves", with shady sitting one tile away.
- racyadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is lively, in the sense "full of zest or vigor", and shady is on the board beside it.
Play shady
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so shady 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 states and conditions words at Ridgeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. shady carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.