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AMBITIOUS
Definition of AMBITIOUS
adjective
Having or showing ambition; wanting a lot of power, honor, respect, superiority, or other distinction.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English ambitious, from Middle French ambitieus, from Latin ambitiosus, from ambitio; see ambition. Compare with French ambitieux. By surface analysis, ambit + -ious.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
33%
of traced words share this origin (9,764)
branch · 33% 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.
AMBITIOUS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 25 boards so far. 51 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 150, 17 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 7, 28 May 2026.
Built from these letters
AMBITIOUS starts with A and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ABIIMOSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Words that start AMBITI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 7
Could you have found AMBITIOUS?
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 7 - and most players walked straight past it.
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