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IMPORTUNE
Definition of IMPORTUNE
verb
To bother, irritate, trouble.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
IMPORTUNE carries 4 further meanings.
intransitive verb
To make an earnest request of (someone), especially insistently or repeatedly.
intransitive verb
To ask for (something) urgently or repeatedly.
intransitive verb
To annoy; vex.
intransitive verb
To plead or urge irksomely, often persistently.
Where it comes from
From Middle French importuner and its etymon Medieval Latin importūnor (“to make oneself troublesome”), from Latin importūnus (“unfit, troublesome”), originally "having no harbor".
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- Middle French
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
33%
of traced words share this origin (9,457)
branch · 33% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, IMPORTUNE · 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.
IMPORTUNE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 44 boards so far. 82 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 31, 20 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 31, 20 June 2026.
Built from these letters
IMPORTUNE starts with I and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EIMNOPRTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that mean much the same
Near-synonyms of IMPORTUNE. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start IMPORT
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 31
Could you have found IMPORTUNE?
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 31 - and most players walked straight past it.
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