Food and drink
Synonyms for unripe
The synonym for unripe recorded in this bank is green, in the sense "not yet fully grown or ready to eat". 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 unripe
- greenadjective, in the sense "not yet fully grown or ready to eat"
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 unripe is audited in a second meaning.
not yet fully grown or ready to eat
The bananas were still unripe and too firm to eat.
The true synonym
green
Same sentence, swapped: The bananas were still green and too firm to eat.
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.
- rotten
- moldy
- stale
Where unripe turns up in the game
unripe is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. 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 unripe
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so unripe 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 food and drink words at Foothills, 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. unripe carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.