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HORRENDOUS
Definition of HORRENDOUS
adjective
Extremely bad; awful; terrible.
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Where it comes from
Borrowed from Latin horrendus, future passive participle (gerundive) of horreō (“to dread”) + -ous.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HORRENDOUS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 124, 21 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 124, 21 September 2026.
Built from these letters
HORRENDOUS starts with H and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read DEHNOORRSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O and R appear more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start HORREN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
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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 124 - and most players walked straight past it.
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