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Synonyms for densely
Synonyms for densely: thickly and tightly. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for densely
Interchangeable with densely in this sense
Audited under densely's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one densely carries in that sense.
- thicklyadverb, in the sense "closely packed together"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name densely as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- tightlytightly is an adverb in the sense "closely and firmly packed together, with little space between parts"
one of these comes from densely's own entry in the bank, and one was audited from the other word's side of the pair. Both directions were read by a human, and only the sense quoted differs.
closely packed together
The hillside was densely wooded, with barely a gap between the trunks.
The true synonym
thickly
Same sentence, swapped: The hillside was thickly wooded, with barely a gap between the trunks.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for densely in the sentence quoted.
- sparsely
- recently
- evenly
Where densely turns up in the game
densely is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. 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 densely is the trap
- sparselyadverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is thinly, in the sense "thinly, with wide gaps between", with densely sitting one tile away.
Play densely
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so densely reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from nature at Foothills outward to the whole bank.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. densely carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.