Qualities
Synonyms for stodgy
The synonym for stodgy recorded in this bank is stuffy, in the sense "excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull". 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 stodgy
- stuffyadjective, in the sense "excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull"
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 stodgy is audited in a second meaning.
excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull
A stodgy dinner party.
The true synonym
stuffy
Same sentence, swapped: A stuffy dinner party.
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.
- mossy
- monotonous
- pasty
Where stodgy turns up in the game
stodgy 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 stodgy is the trap
- stuffyadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is close, in the sense "lacking fresh air", with stodgy sitting one tile away.
Play stodgy
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so stodgy 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 High Camp, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. stodgy carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.