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FROWSY
Definition of FROWSY
adjective
Having a dingy, neglected, and scruffy appearance.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
FROWSY carries 2 further meanings.
See frowzy.
adjective
negligent of neatness especially in dress and person; habitually dirty and unkempt
“frowzy white hair”
Where it comes from
Unknown, but perhaps related to the dialectal adjective frowsty. Attested since the 1680s.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
FROWSY in a sentence
“Max Bedacht was not the kind of frowsy, self-assertive Communist most Congressmen were accustomed to encountering.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
FROWSY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 63 boards so far. 212 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 21, 10 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 144, 11 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 21, 10 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
FROWSY starts with F and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read FORSWY - 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 FROWSY. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
Also seen on Day 21
Could you have found FROWSY?
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 21 - and most players walked straight past it.
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