Emotions
Synonyms for spiteful
The synonym for spiteful recorded in this bank is splenetic, in the sense "showing malice, deliberately intended to hurt". 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 spiteful
- spleneticadjective, in the sense "showing malice, deliberately intended to hurt"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for spiteful.
showing malice, deliberately intended to hurt
The critic's spiteful review seemed designed only to wound the author.
The true synonym
splenetic
Same sentence, swapped: The critic's splenetic review seemed designed only to wound the author.
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 spiteful in the sentence quoted.
- careless
- humorous
- cautious
Where spiteful turns up in the game
spiteful is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 5, Summit. 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 spiteful is the trap
- fractiousadjective, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is recalcitrant, in the sense "stubbornly resistant to authority or control", and spiteful is on the board beside it.
Play spiteful
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so spiteful 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 emotions at Summit outward to the whole bank.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. spiteful carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.