Emotions
Synonyms for sultry
Synonyms for sultry: sensual and stifling. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for sultry
- sensualadjective, in the sense "sexually exciting or gratifying"
- stiflingadjective, in the sense "characterized by oppressive heat and humidity"
Each of these belongs to a different sense of sultry, which is why the meaning beside them changes down the list.
sexually exciting or gratifying
A sultry look.
The true synonym
sensual
Same sentence, swapped: A sensual look.
Close but different
The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.
- livid
- offensive
- foul
characterized by oppressive heat and humidity
The summer was sultry and oppressive.
The true synonym
stifling
Same sentence, swapped: The summer was stifling and oppressive.
Close but different
Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.
- livid
- impure
- offensive
Where sultry turns up in the game
sultry is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across Tier 3, Ridgeline. 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 sultry is the trap
- sensualadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is animal, in the sense "marked by the appetites and passions of the body", and sultry is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play sultry
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so sultry reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because emotions is the company sultry keeps.
One vocabulary, two jobs
sultry is an answer in 2 puzzles and a wrong tile in 1. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.