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Synonyms for highly

The synonym for highly recorded in this bank is extremely, in the sense "to a high degree or extent". 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 1, Foothills · 1 sense · adverb

The synonym for highly

extremelyadverb, in the sense "to a high degree or extent"

That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and highly carries one sense so far.

The senseadverbTier 1, Foothills

to a high degree or extent

The new treatment proved highly effective in early trials.

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

The true synonym

extremely

Same sentence, swapped: The new treatment proved extremely effective in early trials.

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.

plenty
greatly
largely

Where highly turns up in the game

highly is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. 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 highly

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so highly 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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