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PUGNACITY
Definition of PUGNACITY
noun
The act or characteristic of being aggressive or combative.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
PUGNACITY carries 3 further meanings.
noun
The quality of being pugnacious; disposition to fight; quarrelsomeness.
noun
Inclination or readiness to fight; quarrelsomeness.
noun
a natural disposition to be hostile
Where it comes from
From Latin pugnacitas (whence -acity).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.6%
of traced words share this origin (24,861)
branch · 30.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PUGNACITY · 1 relative 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.
PUGNACITY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 57 boards so far. 340 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 24, 13 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 162, 29 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 24, 13 June 2026.
Built from these letters
PUGNACITY starts with P and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ACGINPTUY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that mean much the same
Near-synonyms of PUGNACITY. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
Words that start PUGNAC
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 24
Could you have found PUGNACITY?
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 24 - and most players walked straight past it.
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