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Synonyms for trying

The synonym for trying recorded in this bank is stressful, in the sense "extremely irritating to the nerves". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 2, Treeline · 1 sense · adjective

The synonym for trying

stressfuladjective, in the sense "extremely irritating to the nerves"

A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for trying.

The senseadjectiveTier 2, Treeline

extremely irritating to the nerves

A trying day at the office.

One sentence, one sense. Without it the word could be read three other ways.

The true synonym

stressful

Same sentence, swapped: A stressful day at the office.

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.

heavy
painful
experimental

Where trying turns up in the game

trying is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. 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 trying

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so trying reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. No sentence here is generated at deploy time.

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