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Synonyms for yawning

The synonym for yawning recorded in this bank is drowsy, in the sense "showing lack of attention or boredom". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 3, Ridgeline · 1 sense · adjective

The synonym for yawning

drowsyadjective, in the sense "showing lack of attention or boredom"

A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for yawning.

The senseadjectiveTier 3, RidgelineActions

showing lack of attention or boredom

The yawning congregation.

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The true synonym

drowsy

Same sentence, swapped: The drowsy congregation.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where yawning stands in the sentence above.

gaping
bottomless
ajar

Where yawning turns up in the game

yawning 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 yawning

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. No sentence here is generated at deploy time.

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