People and roles

Synonyms for stupid

The synonym for stupid recorded in this bank is dolt, in the sense "a person who is not very bright". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 3, Ridgeline · 1 sense · noun · 1 reason line

The synonym for stupid

doltnoun, in the sense "a person who is not very bright"

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 stupid is audited in a second meaning.

The sensenounTier 3, RidgelinePeople and roles

a person who is not very bright

The economy, stupid!

The context the game gives you. The gloss above is for readers here, not for players there.

The true synonym

dolt

Same sentence, swapped: The economy, dolt!

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 stupid in the sentence quoted.

square
sheep
crazy

Where stupid turns up in the game

stupid 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 stupid

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so stupid reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. Nothing on it is written while the page is built.

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Closest first: other people and roles words at Ridgeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.

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Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here

Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. stupid carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.

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