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Synonyms for maddening

The synonym for maddening recorded in this bank is infuriating, in the sense "extremely annoying or displeasing". 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 · adjective

The synonym for maddening

infuriatingadjective, in the sense "extremely annoying or displeasing"

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

The senseadjectiveTier 3, Ridgeline

extremely annoying or displeasing

The ceaseless tumult of the jukebox was maddening.

This is the whole of what a player sees before choosing. The meaning has to come out of it.

The true synonym

infuriating

Same sentence, swapped: The ceaseless tumult of the jukebox was infuriating.

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.

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tantalizing

Where maddening turns up in the game

maddening 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 maddening

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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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