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PRIM
Definition of PRIM
adjective
Of a person, their manner or appearance: Formal and precise; stiffly decorous.
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Where it comes from
Of uncertain origin. In the verb sense, first appeared in Thomas D'Urfey's A Fool's Preferment in the year 1688. In the noun sense, first appeared in A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew in the year 1699, meaning "prig." Now obsolete. In the adjective sense, first appeared in Sir Richard Steele's The Funeral in the year 1702, meaning "consciously or affectedly strict or precise; stiffly formal and respectable." Oxford English Dictionary proposed a relation with primp and prink. Chiefly Scottish and U.S.
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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.
PRIM in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 31 boards so far. 52 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 108, 5 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 25, 14 June 2026.
Built from these letters
PRIM starts with P and ends with M. Sorted, its letters read IMPR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start PRIM
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 8
Could you have found PRIM?
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 8 - and most players walked straight past it.
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