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SHAMEFUL
Definition of SHAMEFUL
adjective
Causing or meriting shame or disgrace; disgraceful
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Where it comes from
From Middle English schameful, schamfull, from Old English *sċeamfull, sċeomfull, equivalent to shame + -ful. Cognate with Danish skamfuld (“shameful, shamefast, ashamed”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Old English
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
7th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
3.7%
of traced words share this origin (2,984)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Its etymology also names Danish.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SHAMEFUL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 61 boards so far. 142 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 165, 1 November 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 8, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
SHAMEFUL starts with S and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read AEFHLMSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start SHAMEF
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SHAMEFUL?
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 8 - and most players walked straight past it.
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