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TEDIOUS
Definition of TEDIOUS
adjective
Boring, monotonous, time-consuming, wearisome, livelong.
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Where it comes from
English tedi(um) + -ous, from Old French tedieus, from Late Latin taediōsus, from Latin taedium (“weariness, tedium”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
TEDIOUS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 26 boards so far. 39 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 8, 29 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 101, 29 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 25, 14 June 2026.
Built from these letters
TEDIOUS starts with T and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read DEIOSTU - 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 TEDIOU
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 8
Could you have found TEDIOUS?
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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