Weather
Synonyms for snowy
The synonym for snowy recorded in this bank is hoary, in the sense "grayish-white, as if covered with frost or snow". 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 snowy
- hoaryadjective, in the sense "grayish-white, as if covered with frost or snow"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and snowy carries one sense so far.
grayish-white, as if covered with frost or snow
Snowy peaks glittered in the distance long after the storm had passed.
The true synonym
hoary
Same sentence, swapped: Hoary peaks glittered in the distance long after the storm had passed.
Close but different
The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot snowy is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- verdant
- murky
- arid
Where snowy turns up in the game
snowy is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. 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 snowy is the trap
- whiteadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is livid, in the sense "anemic looking from illness or emotion", with snowy sitting one tile away.
Play snowy
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so snowy 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 weather words at High Camp, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. snowy carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.