Giving and transferring
Synonyms for outright
Synonyms for outright: entirely and wholesale. 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 outright
Interchangeable with outright in this sense
Audited under outright's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one outright carries in that sense.
- entirelyadverb, in the sense "completely and without reservation or conditions"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name outright as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- wholesalewholesale is an adverb in the sense "affecting a whole group all at once, without exception"
The first group is filed under outright's own sense. The second reaches outright from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside it is that word's.
completely and without reservation or conditions
The bank forgave the loan outright, canceling the entire balance.
The true synonym
entirely
Same sentence, swapped: The bank forgave the loan entirely, canceling the entire balance.
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 outright in the sentence quoted.
- eventually
- reluctantly
- partially
Where outright turns up in the game
outright 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 outright is the trap
- largelyadverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is mostly, in the sense "in large part", and outright is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play outright
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so outright 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 giving and transferring words at Foothills, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. outright carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.