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GRISLY
Definition of GRISLY
adjective
Horrifyingly repellent; gruesome, terrifying.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English grisely, grysly, grissliȝ, griselich, grislich, from Old English grisliċ (“grisly, horrible; dreadful, horrid”), from grīsan (“to shudder with horror; to tremble, to be terrified; to make tremble, to terrify; to agrise, grise”) (unattested but implied in āgrīsan) + -lic (suffix forming adjectives meaning ‘characteristic of, pertaining to’). The word may also be an aphetic form of Old English ongrislic, agrisenliċ, the past participle of agrīsan (“to agrise”). Compare Danish grusom, Swedish gräslig, Middle Dutch grezelijc (modern Dutch griezelig), Middle High German grisenlich (modern German grässlich, grausen).
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Word DNA
Line of descent
- Old English
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
7th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
3.7%
of traced words share this origin (3,042)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, GRISLY · 5 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Danish, German, Middle Dutch, Swedish.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
GRISLY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 34 boards so far. 63 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 25, 14 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 168, 4 November 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 25, 14 June 2026.
Built from these letters
GRISLY starts with G and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read GILRSY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Also seen on Day 25
Could you have found GRISLY?
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