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DURATIVE
Definition of DURATIVE
adjective
Of or pertaining to duration.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From duration + -ive. Alternatively, borrowed from French duratif, from Old French duratif (“lasting continuously (for a certain time)”), via Anglo-Norman French, and existing in the form duratif from about the twelfth through the fourteenth centuries, when the spelling was altered to durative under the influence of the literary Neolatin movement. Analogous to dure (“to last, to continue”) + -ive.
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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.
DURATIVE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 98, 26 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 80, 8 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
DURATIVE starts with D and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ADEIRTUV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start DURATI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found DURATIVE?
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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