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QUAINTLY
Definition of QUAINTLY
adverb
In a quaint manner; oddly; strangely.
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Other senses
QUAINTLY carries 4 further meanings.
In a quaint manner.
Prettily; nicely; pleasantly; with neatness or trimness.
Fancifully; oddly; whimsically: curiously; especially, in an odd, old-fashioned way: as, quaintly dressed; quaintly expressed.
adverb
In a quaint manner.
Where it comes from
From quaint + -ly.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, QUAINT · 4 relatives in the game
QUAINTLY in a sentence
“This is a term quaintly used by the learned M. Pierre M.ret to express the devouring of the dead by birds and animals or the surviving friends and relatives.”
A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians, 1884
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
QUAINTLY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 14 boards so far. 164 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 23, 12 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 164, 31 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 23, 12 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
QUAINTLY starts with Q and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AILNQTUY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses Q - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start QUAINT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 23
Could you have found QUAINTLY?
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 23 - and most players walked straight past it.
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