Word library
Synonyms for uncanny
The synonym for uncanny recorded in this bank is preternatural, in the sense "surpassing the ordinary or normal". 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 uncanny
- preternaturaladjective, in the sense "surpassing the ordinary or normal"
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 uncanny is audited in a second meaning.
surpassing the ordinary or normal
His uncanny sense of direction.
The true synonym
preternatural
Same sentence, swapped: His preternatural sense of direction.
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 uncanny is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- eldritch
- ghostly
- gruesome
Where uncanny turns up in the game
uncanny is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. 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 uncanny
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so uncanny reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. uncanny carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.