Perception
Synonyms for visibly
The synonym for visibly recorded in this bank is perceptibly, in the sense "in a way that can be seen or noticed". 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 visibly
- perceptiblyadverb, in the sense "in a way that can be seen or noticed"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for visibly.
in a way that can be seen or noticed
He was visibly shaken after hearing the news.
The true synonym
perceptibly
Same sentence, swapped: He was perceptibly shaken after hearing the news.
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 visibly in the sentence quoted.
- privately
- briefly
- reportedly
Where visibly turns up in the game
visibly is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. 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 visibly is the trap
- graduallyadverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is incrementally, in the sense "happening slowly or by degrees over a period of time", with visibly sitting one tile away.
Play visibly
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so visibly 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 perception words at Ridgeline, 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. visibly carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.