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JEREMIAD
Definition of JEREMIAD
noun
A long speech or prose work that bitterly laments the state of society and its morals, and often contains a prophecy of its coming downfall.
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Other senses
JEREMIAD carries 4 further meanings.
noun
A literary work or speech expressing a bitter lament or a righteous prophecy of doom.
noun
Lamentation; an utterance of grief or sorrow; a complaining tirade: used with a spice of ridicule or mockery, implying either that the grief itself is unnecessarily great, or that the utterance of it is tediously drawn out and attended with a certain satisfaction to the utterer.
noun
A tale of sorrow, disappointment, or complaint; a doleful story; a dolorous tirade; -- generally used satirically.
noun
a long and mournful complaint
Where it comes from
From French jérémiade, from Jérémie, from Latin Ieremias, from Hebrew ירמיה (yirm'yá, “Jeremiah”). Named after biblical prophet Jeremiah, who lamented the moral state of Judah and predicted her downfall.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
17th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0.7%
of traced words share this origin (540)
branch · 2.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, JEREMIAD · 1 relative in the game
JEREMIAD in a sentence
“Keillor’s jeremiad is wrong on so many levels, and proceeds from a place of such monumental self-regard and fundamental misinformation, that a proper rebuttal would require an entire afternoon and a minimum of ten double-spaced pages.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
JEREMIAD in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 22 boards so far. 83 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 35, 24 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 158, 25 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 35, 24 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
JEREMIAD starts with J and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ADEEIJMR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E appears more than once. It uses J - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that mean much the same
Near-synonyms of JEREMIAD. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
Also seen on Day 35
Could you have found JEREMIAD?
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 35 - and most players walked straight past it.
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