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UNALIVE
Definition of UNALIVE
adjective
Not alive; dead or inanimate.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Another sense
UNALIVE carries a second meaning.
adjective
Not alive; dead, inanimate, or lacking a fulfilling life.
Where it comes from
From un- + alive. Internet usage originates from circumventing social media algorithms that were believed to penalise the use of the words related to death, especially “die”, “kill”, and “suicide”. According to linguist Adam Aleksic, the word in the verb sense of “die, kill” first appeared in a 2013 episode of Ultimate Spider-Man, exploding in usage after a few viral videos in early 2021 popularized it. Since early 2022, unalive has become very widespread even outside Internet usage contexts, especially among adolescents. Aleksic argues that the word unalive has gained so much popularity because of a time-invariant tendency to refer to death by euphemism; compare the word die’s displacement of swelt, or the use of pass away.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
UNALIVE in a sentence
“Zombies for category #1: the terrorizing agents are neither dead nor alive, yet possess sentience and are driven by recognizable human impulses. this ambiguity is the core of what makes the audience uncomfortable or apprehensive. it is their state of being "unalive" that separates them from the reader/watcher.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
UNALIVE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 47 boards so far. 94 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 19, 8 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 157, 24 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 19, 8 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
UNALIVE starts with U and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEILNUV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Also seen on Day 19
Could you have found UNALIVE?
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 19 - and most players walked straight past it.
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