Qualities
Synonyms for treacherous
Synonyms for treacherous: unreliable and perfidious. 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 treacherous
- unreliableadjective, in the sense "dangerously unstable and unpredictable"
- perfidiousadjective, in the sense "tending to betray"
All two are filed under treacherous's own senses, one synonym per sense, each read by a human before it shipped.
dangerously unstable and unpredictable
Treacherous winding roads.
The true synonym
unreliable
Same sentence, swapped: Unreliable winding roads.
Close but different
The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot treacherous is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- punic
- dishonest
- sneaky
tending to betray
The fiercest and most treacherous of foes.
The true synonym
perfidious
Same sentence, swapped: The fiercest and most perfidious of foes.
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 treacherous in the sentence quoted.
- unreliable
- uncertain
- shaky
Where treacherous turns up in the game
treacherous 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 three other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where treacherous is the trap
- cunningadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is clever, in the sense "showing inventiveness and skill", so treacherous is there to be ruled out.
- shakyadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is trembling, in the sense "vibrating slightly and irregularly", with treacherous sitting one tile away.
- uncertainadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is unsettled, in the sense "subject to change", and treacherous is on the board beside it.
Play treacherous
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so treacherous 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 qualities words at Ridgeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. treacherous carries 2 written reason lines, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.