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ADVENTUROUS
Definition of ADVENTUROUS
adjective
Inclined to adventure; willing to take risks; prone to embark on hazardous enterprises; daring.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English aventurous, aunterous, auntrous, from Old French aventuros (whence French aventureux). By surface analysis, adventure + -ous.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Old French
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
9th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
2.9%
of traced words share this origin (2,288)
branch · 12.9% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
ADVENTUROUS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 22 boards so far. 53 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 48, 7 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 149, 16 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.
First found by a player on Day 48, 7 July 2026.
Built from these letters
ADVENTUROUS starts with A and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ADENORSTUUV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. U appears more than once.
Words that start ADVENTU
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 48
Could you have found ADVENTUROUS?
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 48 - and most players walked straight past it.
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