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Synonyms for courtly

The synonym for courtly recorded in this bank is formal, in the sense "refined or imposing in manner or appearance". 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 courtly

formaladjective, in the sense "refined or imposing in manner or appearance"

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 courtly is audited in a second meaning.

The senseadjectiveTier 4, High CampObjects

refined or imposing in manner or appearance

A courtly gentleman.

The context the game gives you. The gloss above is for readers here, not for players there.

The true synonym

formal

Same sentence, swapped: A formal gentleman.

Close but different

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

obsequious
honeyed
lordly

Where courtly turns up in the game

courtly 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.

Play courtly

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so courtly reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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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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