States and conditions
Synonyms for tedium
The synonym for tedium recorded in this bank is monotony, in the sense "a state of boredom caused by monotony". 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 tedium
- monotonynoun, in the sense "a state of boredom caused by monotony"
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 tedium is audited in a second meaning.
a state of boredom caused by monotony
The long car ride became an exercise in pure tedium.
The true synonym
monotony
Same sentence, swapped: The long car ride became an exercise in pure monotony.
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.
- tumult
- torment
- turmoil
Where tedium turns up in the game
tedium 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 tedium
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so tedium 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 states and conditions words at Ridgeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. tedium carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.