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DELICATE
Definition of DELICATE
adjective
Easily damaged or requiring careful handling.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English delicat, from Latin dēlicātus (“giving pleasure, delightful, soft, luxurious, delicate, (in Medieval Latin also) fine, slender”), from dēlicia + -ātus (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), usually in plural dēliciae (“pleasure, delight, luxury”), from dēliciō (“to allure, entice”), from dē- (“away”) + laciō (“to lure, to deceive”), from Proto-Italic *lakjō (“to draw, pull”), of unknown ultimate origin. Compare delight, delicious and Spanish delgado (“thin, skinny”). The noun is from a substantivization of the adjective (see -ate).
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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.
DELICATE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 25 boards so far. 35 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 102, 30 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 8, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
DELICATE starts with D and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ACDEEILT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once.
Words that start DELICA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
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