The body
Synonyms for unsteadily
The synonym for unsteadily recorded in this bank is shakily, in the sense "in a shaky or unbalanced way, lacking a firm footing". 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 unsteadily
- shakilyadverb, in the sense "in a shaky or unbalanced way, lacking a firm footing"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and unsteadily carries one sense so far.
in a shaky or unbalanced way, lacking a firm footing
He walked unsteadily on his injured leg.
The true synonym
shakily
Same sentence, swapped: He walked shakily on his injured leg.
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 unsteadily is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- briskly
- gracefully
- purposefully
Where unsteadily turns up in the game
unsteadily 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 unsteadily
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so unsteadily 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 the body is the company unsteadily keeps.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. unsteadily carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.