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Synonyms for unfortunately
The synonym for unfortunately recorded in this bank is regrettably, in the sense "by bad luck". 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 unfortunately
- regrettablyadverb, in the sense "by bad luck"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for unfortunately.
by bad luck
Unfortunately it rained all day.
The true synonym
regrettably
Same sentence, swapped: Regrettably it rained all day.
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.
- luckily
- unfavorably
- fortunately
Where unfortunately turns up in the game
unfortunately 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 unfortunately is the trap
- jointlyadverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is collectively, in the sense "together with another, sharing responsibility or ownership", with unfortunately sitting one tile away.
Play unfortunately
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so unfortunately reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Sorted by difficulty rather than by topic, which is what an untagged word has to go on.
Every word is an answer somewhere and a trap somewhere else
unfortunately is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 1. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.