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CONTRARY
Definition of CONTRARY
adjective
Opposite; in an opposite direction; in opposition; adverse.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English contrarie, compare French contraire, from Old French contraire, from Latin contrārius (“opposite, opposed, contrary”), from contrā (“against”).
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Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
33.2%
of traced words share this origin (10,073)
branch · 33.2% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, CONTRARY · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CONTRARY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 14 days.
First found by a player on Day 140, 7 October 2026.
Built from these letters
CONTRARY starts with C and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ACNORRTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R appears more than once.
Words that start CONTRA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CONTRARY?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 140 - and most players walked straight past it.
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