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MATURE
Definition of MATURE
adjective
Fully developed; grown up in terms of physical appearance, behaviour or thinking; ripe.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From late Middle English mature, from Middle French mature, from Latin mātūrus. Doublet of maduro. Partially displaced ripe, from Old English rīpe (“ripe, mature”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
MATURE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 8 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 26, 15 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 98, 26 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 31, 20 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
MATURE starts with M and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AEMRTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start MATURE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 26
Could you have found MATURE?
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 26 - and most players walked straight past it.
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