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PUSTULAR
Definition of PUSTULAR
adjective
Of, pertaining to, or containing pustules.
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Other senses
PUSTULAR carries 4 further meanings.
adjective
Of, relating to, or consisting of pustules.
Of the nature of a pustule; proceeding from pustules, or characterized by their presence: as, a pustular disease.
In botany and zoology, having low elevations like blisters. Also pustulate, pustulose.
adjective
Of or pertaining to pustules
“pustular prominences; pustular eruptions.”
Where it comes from
From pustule + -ar.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
PUSTULAR in a sentence
“God damn that Chabon, dragging it out of the grave where she and the other serious writers had buried it to save serious literature from its polluting touch, the horror of its blank, pustular face, the lifeless, meaningless glare of its decaying eyes!”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PUSTULAR in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 35 boards so far. 222 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 41, 30 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 41, 30 June 2026.
Built from these letters
PUSTULAR starts with P and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read ALPRSTUU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. U appears more than once.
Words that mean much the same
Near-synonyms of PUSTULAR. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
Words that start PUSTUL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 41
Could you have found PUSTULAR?
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 41 - and most players walked straight past it.
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