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ATRABILIOUS
Definition of ATRABILIOUS
adjective
Having an excess of black bile.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Latin ātra bīlis (“black bile”) (āter (“dark, black”) + bīlis (“bile”)) + -ous (“full of”), referring to the humour which ancient Hippocratic and later Galenic medicine associated with sadness and despondency.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
ATRABILIOUS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 8 boards so far. 10 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 50, 9 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 109, 6 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 50, 9 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ATRABILIOUS starts with A and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AABIILORSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A and I appear more than once.
Words that start ATRABIL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ATRABILIOUS?
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 50 - and most players walked straight past it.
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