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BLANDISH
Definition of BLANDISH
verb
To persuade someone by using flattery; to cajole.
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Other senses
BLANDISH carries 4 further meanings.
transitive verb
To coax by flattery or wheedling; cajole.
To flatter; caress; coax or cajole with complaisant speech or caressing act.
To render pleasing, alluring, or enticing.
To offer or bestow blandly or caressingly: as, to blandish words or favors.
Where it comes from
From Middle English blaundishen (“to flatter; to fawn; to be enticing or persuasive; to be favourable; of the sea: to become calm”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman blaundishen, from blandiss-, the extended stem of Middle French blandir + Middle English -ishen (suffix forming verbs). Blandir is derived from Latin blandīrī (“to fawn, flatter; to delude”), from blandus (“fawning, flattering, smooth, suave; persuasive; alluring, enticing, seductive; agreeable, pleasant”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mel- (“erroneous, false; bad, evil”)) + -iō (suffix forming causative verbs from adjectives). The English word is analysable as bland + -ish; compare bland (“agreeable, pleasant, suave; mild, soothing”).
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Word DNA
Line of descent
5 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.2%
of traced words share this origin (11,554)
How it is built
Same root, BLANDISH · 3 relatives in the game
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
BLANDISH in a sentence
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
BLANDISH in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 55 boards so far. 143 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 13, 2 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 162, 29 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 13, 2 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BLANDISH starts with B and ends with H. Sorted, its letters read ABDHILNS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that mean much the same
Near-synonyms of BLANDISH. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
Words that start BLANDI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 13
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