States and conditions
Synonyms for utmost
Synonyms for utmost: extreme and furthest. 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 utmost
- extremeadjective, in the sense "of the greatest possible degree or extent or intensity"
- furthestadjective, in the sense "most remote in space or time or order"
Each of these belongs to a different sense of utmost, which is why the meaning beside them changes down the list.
of the greatest possible degree or extent or intensity
To the utmost degree.
The true synonym
extreme
Same sentence, swapped: To the extreme degree.
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.
- meridian
- uppermost
- topmost
most remote in space or time or order
The utmost tip of the peninsula.
The true synonym
furthest
Same sentence, swapped: The furthest tip of the peninsula.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where utmost stands in the sentence above.
- maximum
- supreme
- meridian
Where utmost turns up in the game
utmost is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. 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 utmost is the trap
- vergenoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is brink, in the sense "the limit beyond which something happens or changes", so utmost is there to be ruled out.
Play utmost
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so utmost 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 states and conditions is the company utmost keeps.
Every word is an answer somewhere and a trap somewhere else
utmost is an answer in 2 puzzles and a wrong tile in 1. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.