Qualities
Synonyms for ugly
The synonym for ugly recorded in this bank is surly, in the sense "inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace". 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 ugly
- surlyadjective, in the sense "inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace"
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 ugly is audited in a second meaning.
inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace
An ugly frame of mind.
The true synonym
surly
Same sentence, swapped: An surly frame of mind.
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.
- horrible
- worthless
- base
Where ugly turns up in the game
ugly is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. 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 ugly is the trap
- frightfuladjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is terrible, in the sense "extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact", and ugly is on the board beside it.
Play ugly
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so ugly 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.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. ugly carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.