Such crossword clue

The most likely answers for the crossword clue “Such” are MUCH or BARE, with 4 letters. Below are 13 answers from 4 to 10 letters, best match first in each length, then what each top answer means and how to tell them apart.

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The best answers, explained

MUCH 4 letters · adverb

to a great degree or extent “she's much better now”

TIGHT 5 letters · adjective

of such close construction as to be impermeable “a tight roof”

AVOWED 6 letters · adjective

openly declared as such “an avowed enemy”

VIRTUAL 7 letters · adjective

being actually such in almost every respect “the once elegant temple lay in virtual ruin”

APPARENT 8 letters · adjective

appearing as such but not necessarily so “for all his apparent wealth, he had no money to pay the rent”

PRACTICAL 9 letters · adjective

being actually such in almost every respect “a practical failure”

UNFINISHED 10 letters · adjective

lacking a surface finish such as paint “unfinished furniture”

Telling them apart

With 7 squares, VIRTUAL, SEEMING and BRALESS all fit. The first letter tells them all apart: V → VIRTUAL · S → SEEMING · B → BRALESS. Fill in that crossing answer first.

What “such” means

• adjective: of so extreme a degree or extent; demonstrative, other pronoun; demonstrative determiner, kind (“such weeping”)
• adverb: to so extreme a degree (“he is such a baby”)

A clue usually points at one of these senses, so the right answer is the one that matches the sense the puzzle means: check it against the crossing words.

About these answers

We match the clue against our own thesaurus and dictionary (Open English WordNet): words that mean the same as SUCH, and words whose definition is SUCH. We don't copy answers from newspaper puzzles, so a clue that leans on trivia or wordplay may need the crossing letters instead.