Qualities
Synonyms for spicy
The synonym for spicy recorded in this bank is hot, in the sense "producing a burning sensation on the taste nerves". 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 spicy
- hotadjective, in the sense "producing a burning sensation on the taste nerves"
One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day spicy is audited in a second meaning.
producing a burning sensation on the taste nerves
I like my chili extra spicy.
The true synonym
hot
Same sentence, swapped: I like my chili extra hot.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for spicy in the sentence quoted.
- juicy
- shady
- inviting
Where spicy turns up in the game
spicy 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 three other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where spicy is the trap
- lusciousadjective, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is juicy, in the sense "richly sweet and juicy in taste", with spicy sitting one tile away.
- hotadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is raging, in the sense "characterized by violent and forceful activity or movement", so spicy is there to be ruled out.
- hugeadjective, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is prodigious, in the sense "very great in size, amount, or extent", so spicy is there to be ruled out.
Play spicy
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so spicy 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.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. spicy carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.