OUTLANDISH DEFINITIONS - 10 definitions found
outlandish adj 1: conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual; "restaurants of bizarre design--one like a hat, another like a rabbit"; "famed for his eccentric spelling"; "a freakish combination of styles"; "his off-the-wall antics"; "the outlandish clothes of teenagers"; "outre and affected stage antics" [syn: bizarre, eccentric, freakish, freaky, flaky, flakey, gonzo, off- the-wall}, outlandish, outre] Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) outlandish adjective Date: before 12th century 1. of or relating to another country ; foreign 2. a. strikingly out of the ordinary ; bizarre <an outlandish costume> b. exceeding proper or reasonable limits or standards 3. remote from civilization Synonyms: see strange • outlandishly adverb • outlandishness noun Oxford English Reference Dictionary
English Explanatory Dictionary outlandish autˈlændɪʃ adj. 1 looking or sounding foreign. 2 bizarre, strange, unfamiliar. øøoutlandishly adv. outlandishness n. [OE utlendisc f. utland foreign country f. OUT + LAND] Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Outlandish \Out*land"ish\, a. [AS. ?tlendisc foreign. See Out, Land, and -ish.] 1. Foreign; not native. Him did outlandish women cause to sin. --Neh. xiii. 26. Its barley water and its outlandish wines. --G. W. Cable. 2. Hence: Not according with usage; strange; rude; barbarous; uncouth; clownish; as, an outlandish dress, behavior, or speech. Something outlandish, unearthy, or at variance with ordinary fashion. --Hawthorne. --{Out*land"ish*ly}, adv. -- Out*land"ish*ness, n. International Standard Bible Encyclopedia OUTLANDISH out-land'-ish (Ne 13:26, the King James Version "Him did outlandish women cause to sin") "Outlandish" in modern English is colloquial only and with the sense "utterly extraordinary," but the King James Version uses it in the literal meaning "out of the land," "foreign," the English Revised Version "strange women," the American Standard Revised Version "foreign women," Hebrew nokhri, "foreign." Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms outlandish a. 1. Foreign, strange, exotic, alien, from abroad. 2. Barbarous, strange, uncouth, queer, bizarre. English Explanatory Dictionary (Synonyms) outlandish autˈlændɪʃ adj. unfamiliar, strange, odd, queer, offbeat, peculiar, curious, exotic, foreign, alien, unknown, unheard-of, different, exceptional, extraordinary, quaint, eccentric, bizarre, outr÷, weird, fantastic, unusual, singular, unique; freakish, grotesque, barbarous; Colloq far-out, camp(y), kinky: Those youngsters wear the most outlandish hair-dos you have ever seen. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 189 Moby Thesaurus words for "outlandish": Doric, Gothic, Neanderthal, absurd, alien, animal, apart, back, barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, baroque, beguiling, bestial, bewildering, bizarre, brain-born, brutal, brutish, cacophonous, campy, clumsy, coarse, crude, curious, detached, different, disconnected, discrete, disjunct, disrelated, dissociated, doggerel, dream-built, dysphemistic, eccentric, enigmatic, exceptional, exotic, exterior, external, exterrestrial, exterritorial, extragalactic, extralateral, extraliminal, extramundane, extramural, extraneous, extraordinary, extrapolar, extraprovincial, extrasolar, extraterrestrial, extraterritorial, extratribal, extravagant, extrinsic, fabulous, fanciful, fancy-born, fancy-built, fancy-woven, fantasque, fantastic, fascinating, florid, foreign, foreign-born, freaked out, freakish, freaky, frontier, funny, graceless, gross, grotesque, harsh, ill-bred, impolite, improper, impure, in bad taste, incommensurable, incomparable, incomprehensible, inconceivable, inconcinnate, inconcinnous, incorrect, incredible, indecorous, independent, inelegant, infelicitous, insular, intrusive, irrelative, isolated, kinky, kooky, low, maggoty, marvelous, miraculous, monstrous, noncivilized, notional, odd, oddball, off, off the wall, offbeat, other, out, outland, outrageous, outre, outside, passing strange, peculiar, phenomenal, preposterous, primitive, prodigious, puzzling, quaint, queer, rare, remarkable, remote, removed, rococo, rough-and-ready, rude, savage, segregate, sensational, separate, separated, singular, strange, striking, stupendous, tasteless, troglodytic, ulterior, ultra, unaffiliated, unallied, unassociated, uncivil, uncivilized, uncombed, unconnected, unconventional, uncourtly, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, undignified, unearthly, uneuphonious, unfamiliar, unfelicitous, ungraceful, unheard-of, unimaginable, unique, unkempt, unknown, unlicked, unorthodox, unpolished, unprecedented, unrefined, unrelatable, unrelated, unseemly, unsettled, untamed, unusual, vulgar, weird, whimsical, wild, wonderful, wondrous, wondrous strange |
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