Thinking and knowing
Synonyms for teasing
Synonyms for teasing: annoying and banter. 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 teasing
Interchangeable with teasing in this sense
Audited under teasing's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one teasing carries in that sense.
- annoyingadjective, in the sense "causing irritation or annoyance"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name teasing as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- banterbanter is a noun in the sense "playful, teasing conversation exchanged for amusement"
The first group is filed under teasing's own sense. The second reaches teasing from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside it is that word's.
causing irritation or annoyance
A teasing and persistent thought annoyed him.
The true synonym
annoying
Same sentence, swapped: A annoying and persistent thought annoyed him.
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 teasing in the sentence quoted.
- mocking
- disappointing
- exotic
Where teasing turns up in the game
teasing 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 one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where teasing is the trap
- exoticadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is alien, in the sense "being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world", so teasing is there to be ruled out.
Play teasing
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so teasing 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 thinking and knowing 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. teasing carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.