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EPISTOLIC
Definition of EPISTOLIC
adjective
Relating to letters or epistles, or in the form or style of them
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
EPISTOLIC carries 3 further meanings.
Pertaining to letters or epistles; epistolary.
adjective
Pertaining to letters or epistles; in the form or style of letters; epistolary.
adjective
Relating to letters or epistles; in the form or style of letters; epistolary.
Where it comes from
From Latin epistolicus, from Ancient Greek ἐπιστολικός (epistolikós, “suited to or in the style of a letter”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Ancient Greek
- Latin
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
12.6%
of traced words share this origin (3,608)
branch · 12.6% of traced words
How it is built
EPISTOLIC in a sentence
“Being an inveterate experimentalist though, every other story ended up being told as some non-linear, multi-viewpoint mosaic (like the Jack Flash sections) or in an epistolic form as letters and journal entries (like in the Caucasus sections).”
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » AUTHOR INTERVIEW: Hal Duncan, 2006
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
EPISTOLIC in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 33 boards so far. 98 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 36, 25 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 40, 29 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
EPISTOLIC starts with E and ends with C. Sorted, its letters read CEIILOPST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Words that mean much the same
Near-synonyms of EPISTOLIC. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
Words that start EPISTO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 36
Could you have found EPISTOLIC?
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 36 - and most players walked straight past it.
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