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neogodless on June 3, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Semantle: guess words based on Word2vec similarity...

Mild spoilers...

How can beautiful be semantically close, but gorgeous is cold? Great is close, but excellent is cold?

What the heck do "very" and "great" have to do with the solution, semantically?

dehrmann on June 3, 2022 [–]

Maybe you're not looking for an adjective that describes extremes.

neogodless on June 3, 2022 | [–]

In the end it wasn't an adjective at all. Or remotely related to any of the "closely related" words. Ha!

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