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HILARIOUS
Definition of HILARIOUS
adjective
Very funny; causing great merriment and laughter.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Learned borrowing from Latin hilaris (“cheerful”) + -ious, from Ancient Greek ἱλαρός (hilarós, “cheerful, merry”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Ancient Greek
- Latin
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
12.2%
of traced words share this origin (9,501)
branch · 12.2% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HILARIOUS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 41 boards so far. 74 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 152, 19 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First found by a player on Day 8, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
HILARIOUS starts with H and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AHIILORSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Words that start HILARI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 8
Could you have found HILARIOUS?
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 8 - and most players walked straight past it.
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