Qualities
Synonyms for shameful
Synonyms for shameful: black and shocking. 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.
The 2 synonyms for shameful
Interchangeable with shameful in this sense
Audited under shameful's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one shameful carries in that sense.
- blackadjective, in the sense "deserving or bringing disgrace or shame"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name shameful as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- shockingshocking is an adjective in the sense "giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation"
Two directions, one standard: one audited under shameful and one under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
deserving or bringing disgrace or shame
A shameful display of cowardice.
The true synonym
black
Same sentence, swapped: A black display of cowardice.
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.
- wretched
- inappropriate
- offensive
Where shameful turns up in the game
shameful 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 shameful is the trap
- wistfuladjective, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is pensive, in the sense "showing pensive sadness", with shameful sitting one tile away.
Play shameful
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so shameful 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 qualities at Treeline outward to the whole bank.
The same bank, read from both sides
shameful 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.