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SEDATING
Definition of SEDATING
verb
present participle and gerund of sedate
adjective
Of a person or animal, or their behaviour: calm and composed (often in a dignified manner), and avoiding or unaffected by activity or excitement.
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Word DNA
SEDATING inherits its ancestry from its root, SEDATE.
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.4%
of traced words share this origin (11,166)
How it is built
Same root, SEDATE · 3 relatives in the game
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SEDATING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 78, 6 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 107, 4 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 48 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 78, 6 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SEDATING starts with S and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read ADEGINST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start SEDATI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SEDATING?
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 78 - and most players walked straight past it.
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