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HATED
Definition of HATED
adjective
Disliked; odious; reviled.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English hated, from Old English hatod, ġehatod (“hated”, past participle), from Proto-Germanic *hatadaz (“hated”), equivalent to hate + -ed. Cognate with Saterland Frisian haated, hoated (“hated”), Dutch gehaat (“hated”), German Low German haat (“hated”), German gehasst (“hated”), Swedish hatad (“hated”), Icelandic hataður (“hated”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
7th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
3.3%
of traced words share this origin (976)
branch · 22.3% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, HAT · 4 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Dutch, Icelandic, Swedish.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HATED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 10 boards so far. 22 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 18, 7 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 130, 27 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 17 days.
First found by a player on Day 18, 7 June 2026.
Built from these letters
HATED starts with H and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ADEHT - 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.
Also seen on Day 18
Could you have found HATED?
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 18 - and most players walked straight past it.
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