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INJURIOUS
Definition of INJURIOUS
adjective
Causing physical harm or injury; harmful, hurtful.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English injurious, from Anglo-Norman enjurius, from Latin iniūriōsus; analysable as injury + -ous.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.6%
of traced words share this origin (25,170)
branch · 30.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, INJURIOUS · 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.
INJURIOUS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 10 boards so far. 161 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 18, 7 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 129, 26 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 36 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 27, 16 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
INJURIOUS starts with I and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read IIJNORSUU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I and U appear more than once. It uses J - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start INJURI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 18
Could you have found INJURIOUS?
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 18 - and most players walked straight past it.
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