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ADULTERATE
Definition of ADULTERATE
adjective
Corrupted or made impure by being mixed with something else; adulterated.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Latin adulterātus (“adulterate, adulterated, defiled, polluted, counterfeited”), perfect passive participle of adulterō (“to adulterate, defile, commit adultery (with), counterfeit”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from ad- (“to, in the direction of”) + alter (“other”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix), literally “to go after someone else”. Equivalent to adultery + -ate.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (26,318)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, ADULTERATE · 3 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.
ADULTERATE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 137, 4 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 152, 19 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 23 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 137, 4 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ADULTERATE starts with A and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AADEELRTTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A, T and E appear more than once.
Words that start ADULTE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ADULTERATE?
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