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MALADROIT
Definition of MALADROIT
adjective
Not adroit; awkward, clumsy, inept.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
MALADROIT carries 4 further meanings.
adjective
Marked by a lack of adroitness; inept.
noun
An inept person.
Not adroit or dexterous; inexpert; clumsy; awkward; unhandy; bungling.
adjective
Of a quality opposed to adroitness; clumsy; awkward; unskillful.
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French maladroit, from mal- (“bad, badly”) + adroit (“skilful”), equivalent to mal- + adroit.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- French
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
5th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
5.3%
of traced words share this origin (4,160)
branch · 12.9% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, MALADROIT · 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.
MALADROIT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 64 boards so far. 318 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 23, 12 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 155, 22 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First found by a player on Day 23, 12 June 2026.
Built from these letters
MALADROIT starts with M and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read AADILMORT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that mean much the same
Near-synonyms of MALADROIT. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
Words that start MALADR
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 23
Could you have found MALADROIT?
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 23 - and most players walked straight past it.
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