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REPUGNANT
Definition of REPUGNANT
adjective
Offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English repugnaunt, from Old French repugnant, borrowed from Latin repugnans, present participle of repugnare (“to oppose, to fight against”), from re- (“back, against”) + pugnare (“to fight”); see pugnacious. By surface analysis, re- + Latin pugn + -ant.
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Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
32.5%
of traced words share this origin (8,639)
branch · 32.5% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
REPUGNANT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 132, 29 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 132, 29 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
REPUGNANT starts with R and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read AEGNNPRTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N appears more than once.
Words that start REPUGN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found REPUGNANT?
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 132 - and most players walked straight past it.
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