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DECLINATORY
Definition of DECLINATORY
adjective
Containing or involving a declination or refusal, as of submission to a charge or sentence.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Latin declinatorius, from declinare: compare French déclinatoire.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
5th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
7.2%
of traced words share this origin (2,141)
branch · 15.4% 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.
DECLINATORY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 7 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 149, 16 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 72, 31 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Also on
Built from these letters
DECLINATORY starts with D and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ACDEILNORTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start DECLINA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found DECLINATORY?
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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.
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