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GHAST
Definition of GHAST
verb
Alternative form of gast.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
GHAST carries 4 further meanings.
Same as gast.
Having a ghastly appearance; weird.
transitive verb
To strike aghast; to affright.
adjective
Having a ghastly appearance; weird.
Where it comes from
Variation of gast, from Middle English gasten, from Old English gāstan (“to meditate”) and gǣstan (“to gast, frighten, afflict, torment”). More at gast. Spelling influenced by ghost.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Old English
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
6th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
4.2%
of traced words share this origin (1,197)
branch · 22.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, GHAST · 2 relatives in the game
GHAST in a sentence
“For years, nearly every day a lost weekend, she had been possessed by the dark amber ghast of gag-sweet Taylor Cream Sherry.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
GHAST in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 85 boards so far. 351 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 1, 22 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 142, 9 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 1, 22 May 2026.
Built from these letters
GHAST starts with G and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read AGHST - 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 GHAST. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start GHAST
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 1
Could you have found GHAST?
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