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ANTIPODAL

/ænˈtɪpədl̩/9 letters

Definition of ANTIPODAL

adjective

On opposite sides of the globe; pertaining to antipodes.

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Other senses

ANTIPODAL carries 4 further meanings.

  1. adjective

    Of, relating to, or situated on the opposite side or sides of the earth.

    “Australia and Great Britain occupy antipodal regions.”

  2. adjective

    Diametrically opposed; exactly opposite.

  3. noun

    One of usually three cells situated at the opposite end from the egg in the mature embryo sac of a flowering plant.

  4. Pertaining or relating to the antipodes; situated on or belonging to opposite sides of the globe.

Where it comes from

From antipode + -al.

Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).

Word DNA

How it is built

adjective3 syllablescompound-al

Same root, ANTIPODAL · 1 relative in the game

The Word DNA of OUTLIER →

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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.

ANTIPODAL in OUTLIER

Players have found it on 61 boards so far. 198 players have found it across Outlier's history.

Day 1Day 153
Its 61 boards, across 153 finished boards · taller bars are busier boards
61
Boards found on
26
First board
152
Latest board
6
Longest gap, days

It first turned up on Day 26, 15 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 152, 19 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.

First found by a player on Day 26, 15 June 2026.

Built from these letters

ANTIPODAL
9
Letters
4
Vowels
5
Consonants
8
Different letters
2
Longest consonant run
1
Longest vowel run

ANTIPODAL starts with A and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read AADILNOPT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.

Words that mean much the same

Near-synonyms of ANTIPODAL. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.

ANTIPODEANANTITHETICANTITHETICALCONFRONTINGCONTRADICTORYCONTRAPOSITIVECONTRARYCONVERSE

Words that start ANTIPO

Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.

Could you have found ANTIPODAL?

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 26 - and most players walked straight past it.

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

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