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Synonyms for agape

The synonym for agape recorded in this bank is gaping, in the sense "with the mouth wide open as in wonder or awe". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 4, High Camp · 1 sense · adjective

The synonym for agape

gapingadjective, in the sense "with the mouth wide open as in wonder or awe"

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 agape is audited in a second meaning.

The senseadjectiveTier 4, High Camp

with the mouth wide open as in wonder or awe

We stood there agape with wonder.

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The true synonym

gaping

Same sentence, swapped: We stood there gaping with wonder.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where agape stands in the sentence above.

inquiring
inquisitive
morbid

Where agape turns up in the game

agape is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. No sentence here is generated at deploy time.

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