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ACEDIOUS
Definition of ACEDIOUS
adjective
Exhibiting acedia, or spiritual sloth.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From acedia + -ous.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, ACEDIA · 2 relatives 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.
ACEDIOUS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 177, 13 November 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 177, 13 November 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ACEDIOUS starts with A and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACDEIOSU - 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.
Could you have found ACEDIOUS?
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 177 - and most players walked straight past it.
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