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FUGITIVE
Definition of FUGITIVE
noun
A person who flees or escapes and travels secretly from place to place, and sometimes using disguises and aliases to conceal their identity, as to avoid law authorities in order to avoid an arrest or prosecution, or to avoid some other unwanted situation.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English fugitive, fugityve, fugityf, fugitife, fugytif, fugitif, from Latin fugitīvus, from fugitō, from fugiō.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.7%
of traced words share this origin (24,343)
branch · 30.7% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, FUGITIVE · 2 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
FUGITIVE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 27 boards so far. 55 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 19, 8 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 156, 23 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First found by a player on Day 19, 8 June 2026.
Built from these letters
FUGITIVE starts with F and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EFGIITUV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Words that start FUGITI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 19
Could you have found FUGITIVE?
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 19 - and most players walked straight past it.
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