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IMPORTUNITY
Definition of IMPORTUNITY
noun
Constant and insistent demanding or proposing, especially if regarded as annoying or upsetting; also, the character of such behaviour; an instance of this.
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Where it comes from
From Late Middle English importunitie, importunyte (“insistence, persistence; grievance; hardship, trouble; inappropriateness (?)”), from Anglo-Norman importunité, and Middle French importunité (“persistent demand; hardship, trouble; something difficult or troublesome; inappropriateness”) (modern French importunité), and their etymon Latin importūnitās (“insolence, rudeness; oppressiveness, relentlessness; unfitness, unsuitableness”), from importūnus (“annoying; rude; inconvenient; unsuitable”) + -tās (suffix forming feminine abstract nouns denoting states of being). Importūnus is derived from im- (a variant of in- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + portus (“harbour, port; haven, refuge”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pértus (“crossing”), from *per- (“to carry forth, fare; to dare, try; to go through;”)) + -nus (suffix forming adjectives). By surface analysis, importune + -ity (suffix forming abstract nouns from adjectives, referring to the state of conforming to what the adjectives describe).
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
IMPORTUNITY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 106, 3 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 106, 3 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
IMPORTUNITY starts with I and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read IIMNOPRTTUY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I and T appear more than once.
Words that start IMPORTU
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found IMPORTUNITY?
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