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Synonyms for untoward
The synonym for untoward recorded in this bank is adverse, in the sense "contrary to your interests or welfare". 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 untoward
- adverseadjective, in the sense "contrary to your interests or welfare"
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 untoward is audited in a second meaning.
contrary to your interests or welfare
Made a place for themselves under the most untoward conditions.
The true synonym
adverse
Same sentence, swapped: Made a place for themselves under the most adverse conditions.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for untoward in the sentence quoted.
- unseemly
- indecent
- invalid
Where untoward turns up in the game
untoward 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 untoward
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so untoward reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from events at Ridgeline outward to the whole bank.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. untoward carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.