Qualities
Synonyms for skeletal
The synonym for skeletal recorded in this bank is wasted, in the sense "very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold". 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 skeletal
- wastedadjective, in the sense "very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for skeletal.
very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold
A nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys.
The true synonym
wasted
Same sentence, swapped: A nightmare population of gaunt men and wasted boys.
Close but different
Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.
- gawky
- undersized
- spidery
Where skeletal turns up in the game
skeletal 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 two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where skeletal is the trap
- peakedadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is poorly, in the sense "somewhat ill or prone to illness", so skeletal is there to be ruled out.
- lankyadjective, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is gangly, in the sense "tall and thin and having long slender limbs", and skeletal is on the board beside it.
Play skeletal
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so skeletal 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 qualities words at Ridgeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
Every word is an answer somewhere and a trap somewhere else
skeletal 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.