Emotions
Synonyms for sourly
The synonym for sourly recorded in this bank is testily, in the sense "in a bitter, ill-tempered manner". 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 sourly
- testilyadverb, in the sense "in a bitter, ill-tempered manner"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for sourly.
in a bitter, ill-tempered manner
The old man responded sourly to every attempt at small talk.
The true synonym
testily
Same sentence, swapped: The old man responded testily to every attempt at small talk.
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.
- slowly
- warmly
- curiously
Where sourly turns up in the game
sourly is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play sourly
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so sourly 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 emotions words at Ridgeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. sourly carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.