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RETARDANT
Definition of RETARDANT
adjective
Serving to impede (slow down) the action of something
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French retardant, equivalent to retard (“to slow down”) + -ant.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- French
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
5th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
7.2%
of traced words share this origin (2,034)
branch · 15.5% 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.
RETARDANT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 138, 5 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
RETARDANT starts with R and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read AADENRRTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R, T and A appear more than once.
Words that start RETARD
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found RETARDANT?
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 138 - and most players walked straight past it.
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