Time
Synonyms for deadline
The synonym for deadline recorded in this bank is cutoff, in the sense "the time by which something must be completed". 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 deadline
- cutoffnoun, in the sense "the time by which something must be completed"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and deadline carries one sense so far.
the time by which something must be completed
The reporters scrambled to finish their stories before the deadline.
The true synonym
cutoff
Same sentence, swapped: The reporters scrambled to finish their stories before the cutoff.
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 deadline is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- headline
- byline
- editorial
Where deadline turns up in the game
deadline 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 four other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where deadline is the trap
- hiatusnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is break, in the sense "a pause or gap in an activity or process", and deadline is one of the three tiles that lose.
- epochnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is era, in the sense "a distinct, often significant period of time, especially one marking a new development", with deadline sitting one tile away.
- respitenoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is relief, in the sense "a short period of rest or relief from something difficult", and deadline is one of the three tiles that lose.
- stipendnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is allowance, in the sense "a fixed regular sum paid as an allowance", so deadline is there to be ruled out.
Play deadline
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so deadline reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other time words at Treeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. deadline carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.