Emotions
Synonyms for thankless
Synonyms for thankless: ungrateful and unappreciated. 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 thankless
- ungratefuladjective, in the sense "not feeling or showing gratitude"
- unappreciatedadjective, in the sense "not likely to be rewarded"
Each of these belongs to a different sense of thankless, which is why the meaning beside them changes down the list.
not feeling or showing gratitude
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is / To have a thankless child!
The true synonym
ungrateful
Same sentence, swapped: How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is / To have a ungrateful child!
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 thankless in the sentence quoted.
- unappreciated
- grateful
- unsavory
not likely to be rewarded
Grading papers is a thankless task.
The true synonym
unappreciated
Same sentence, swapped: Grading papers is a unappreciated task.
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 thankless in the sentence quoted.
- ungrateful
- unsavory
- undesirable
Where thankless turns up in the game
thankless is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. 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 thankless is the trap
- unsungadjective, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is unknown, in the sense "not famous or acclaimed", with thankless sitting one tile away.
Play thankless
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so thankless reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. thankless carries 2 written reason lines, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.