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Synonyms for deathly

The synonym for deathly recorded in this bank is extremely, in the sense "to an extreme degree". 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 3, Ridgeline · 1 sense · adverb

The synonym for deathly

extremelyadverb, in the sense "to an extreme degree"

A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for deathly.

The senseadverbTier 3, Ridgeline

to an extreme degree

The night was deathly cold.

One sentence, one sense. Without it the word could be read three other ways.

The true synonym

extremely

Same sentence, swapped: The night was extremely cold.

Close but different

The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.

blatantly
sorely
cruelly

Where deathly turns up in the game

deathly 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 deathly

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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. Everything on it is a stored field, not a run-time composition.

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