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Synonyms for steep
Synonyms for steep: infuse and outrageous. 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 steep
Interchangeable with steep in this sense
Audited under steep's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one steep carries in that sense.
- infuseverb, in the sense "let sit in a liquid to extract a flavor or to cleanse"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name steep as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- outrageousoutrageous is an adjective in the sense "greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation"
Two directions, one standard: one audited under steep and one under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
let sit in a liquid to extract a flavor or to cleanse
Steep the blossoms in oil.
The true synonym
infuse
Same sentence, swapped: Infuse the blossoms in oil.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- absorb
- bluff
- sheer
Where steep turns up in the game
steep is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in three other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where steep is the trap
- sparseadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is scanty, in the sense "thinly dispersed or scattered; existing in small quantities", so steep is there to be ruled out.
- verticaladjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is upright, in the sense "upright in position or posture", with steep sitting one tile away.
- giganticadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is mammoth, in the sense "so exceedingly large or extensive as to suggest a giant or mammoth", with steep sitting one tile away.
Play steep
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so steep 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 change at High Camp outward to the whole bank.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. steep carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.