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PULCHRITUDE
Definition of PULCHRITUDE
noun
Physical beauty.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
PULCHRITUDE carries 4 further meanings.
noun
Great physical beauty and appeal.
noun
Beauty; comeliness; handsomeness.
noun
That quality of appearance which pleases the eye; beauty; comeliness; grace; loveliness.
noun
Attractive moral excellence; moral beauty.
Where it comes from
From Middle English pulcritude, from Latin pulchritūdō, from pulcher (“beautiful”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,595)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PULCHRITUDE · 1 relative in the game
PULCHRITUDE in a sentence
“If we don't allow people to hug our Republicans without a legitimate reason, it's for reasons of sustainability, not necessarily a lack of pulchritude.”
Entering Massachusetts: Please Don't Hug the Republicans, 2011
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PULCHRITUDE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 44 boards so far. 679 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 25, 14 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 142, 9 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First found by a player on Day 25, 14 June 2026.
Built from these letters
PULCHRITUDE starts with P and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read CDEHILPRTUU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. U appears more than once.
Words that mean much the same
Near-synonyms of PULCHRITUDE. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
Words that start PULCHRI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 25
Could you have found PULCHRITUDE?
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 25 - and most players walked straight past it.
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