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PUNITIVE
Definition of PUNITIVE
adjective
Inflicting punishment; punishing.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle French punitif, from Medieval Latin pūnitīvus, from pūniō (“to punish”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Latin
- Middle French
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
30.5%
of traced words share this origin (24,890)
branch · 30.5% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PUNITIVE · 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.
PUNITIVE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 45 boards so far. 146 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 9, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 163, 30 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 9, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
PUNITIVE starts with P and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EIINPTUV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once.
Words that start PUNITI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 9
Could you have found PUNITIVE?
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 9 - and most players walked straight past it.
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