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OBTEMPERATE
Definition of OBTEMPERATE
verb
To obey, comply or submit to. [with direct object]
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Latin obtemperātus, perfect passive participle of obtemperō (“to obey”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Doublet of obtemper.
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.
OBTEMPERATE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 120, 17 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 120, 17 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
OBTEMPERATE starts with O and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ABEEEMOPRTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T and E appear more than once.
Words that start OBTEMPE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found OBTEMPERATE?
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 120 - and most players walked straight past it.
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