Qualities
Synonyms for unruly
The synonym for unruly recorded in this bank is uncontrollable, in the sense "incapable of being controlled". 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 unruly
- uncontrollableadjective, in the sense "incapable of being controlled"
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 unruly is audited in a second meaning.
incapable of being controlled
The little boy's parents think he is spirited, but his teacher finds him unruly.
The true synonym
uncontrollable
Same sentence, swapped: The little boy's parents think he is spirited, but his teacher finds him uncontrollable.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where unruly stands in the sentence above.
- boisterous
- wanton
- revolutionary
Where unruly turns up in the game
unruly is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. 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 unruly
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so unruly reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because qualities is the company unruly keeps.
One word a day, five rungs, and a sentence under each
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. The daily stack climbs from tier one to tier five, and every answer shows the meaning it was audited in.