Quantity
Synonyms for steeply
The synonym for steeply recorded in this bank is precipitously, in the sense "at a rapid, sharp rate of increase or decrease in amount". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for steeply
- precipitouslyadverb, in the sense "at a rapid, sharp rate of increase or decrease in amount"
One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day steeply is audited in a second meaning.
at a rapid, sharp rate of increase or decrease in amount
Ticket sales dropped steeply after the scandal broke.
The true synonym
precipitously
Same sentence, swapped: Ticket sales dropped precipitously after the scandal broke.
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 steeply in the sentence quoted.
- publicly
- belatedly
- controversially
Where steeply turns up in the game
steeply 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 steeply
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so steeply reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because quantity is the company steeply keeps.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. steeply carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.