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INDECOROUS
Definition of INDECOROUS
adjective
Improper, immodest, or indecent.
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Other senses
INDECOROUS carries 4 further meanings.
adjective
Lacking propriety or decorum. synonym: unseemly.
Not decorous; violating propriety or the accepted rules of conduct; unseemly.
Synonyms Unbecoming, unseemly, improper, rude, unmannerly.
adjective
Not decorous; violating good manners; contrary to good breeding or etiquette; unbecoming; improper; out of place.
“indecorous conduct”
Where it comes from
By surface analysis, in- + decorous; or, Latin indecōrus.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.5%
of traced words share this origin (24,890)
branch · 30.5% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, INDECOROUS · 1 relative in the game
INDECOROUS in a sentence
“His affability and courteousness in several candidate debates made their gentlest criticism of him look unreasonable and indecorous.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
INDECOROUS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 43 boards so far. 72 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 42, 1 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 164, 31 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 42, 1 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
INDECOROUS starts with I and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CDEINOORSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.
Words that mean much the same
Near-synonyms of INDECOROUS. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
Words that start INDECO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 42
Could you have found INDECOROUS?
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 42 - and most players walked straight past it.
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