States and conditions

Synonyms for shame

Synonyms for shame: disgrace and pity. 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 · noun · a wrong tile in 1 puzzle

The 2 synonyms for shame

Interchangeable with shame in this sense

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

disgracenoun, in the sense "a state of dishonor"

Recorded from the other side of the pair

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

pitypity is a noun in the sense "an unfortunate development"

one of these comes from shame's own entry in the bank, and one was audited from the other word's side of the pair. Both directions were read by a human, and only the sense quoted differs.

The sensenounTier 2, TreelineStates and conditions

a state of dishonor

One mistake brought shame to all his family.

The context the game gives you. The gloss above is for readers here, not for players there.

The true synonym

disgrace

Same sentence, swapped: One mistake brought disgrace to all his family.

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.

regret
guilt
grief

Where shame turns up in the game

shame 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 shame is the trap

discreditnoun, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is disrepute, in the sense "the state of being held in low esteem", so shame is there to be ruled out.

Play shame

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so shame 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. No sentence here is generated at deploy time.

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Every word is an answer somewhere and a trap somewhere else

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

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