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INTENSE
Definition of INTENSE
adjective
Of a characteristic: extreme or very high or strong in degree; severe; also, excessive, towering.
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Where it comes from
From Late Middle English intens, intense (“ardent, fervent; extreme, great, intense”), borrowed from Old French intense (modern French intense), or directly from its etymon Latin intēnsus (“strained, stretched tight; intense; attentive; violent; (rare) eager, intent”), the perfect passive participle of intendō (“to stretch out, strain”), from in- (prefix meaning ‘in, inside, within’) + tendō (“to extend, stretch”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tend- (“to extend, stretch”)).
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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.
INTENSE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 90, 18 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 33 days.
First found by a player on Day 90, 18 August 2026.
Built from these letters
INTENSE starts with I and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EEINNST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N and E appear more than once.
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 INTENS
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found INTENSE?
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 90 - and most players walked straight past it.
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