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Synonyms for burly
The synonym for burly recorded in this bank is brawny, in the sense "large and strongly built". 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 burly
- brawnyadjective, in the sense "large and strongly built"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for burly.
large and strongly built
Two burly movers carried the piano up three flights of stairs.
The true synonym
brawny
Same sentence, swapped: Two brawny movers carried the piano up three flights of stairs.
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.
- lanky
- scrawny
- wiry
Where burly turns up in the game
burly is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where burly is the trap
- litheadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is supple, in the sense "moving in a smooth, flexible, and graceful way", and burly is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play burly
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so burly 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 burly keeps.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. burly carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.