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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

OUTLAND'ISH, a.
1. Foreign; not native.
Nevertheless, even him did outlandish women cause to sin.
Nehemiah 13.
2. Born or produced in the interior country, or among rude people; hence, vulgar; rustic; rude; clownish. [This is the sense in which the word is among us most generally used.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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

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 Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 looking or sounding foreign. 2 bizarre, strange, unfamiliar. Derivatives: outlandishly adv. outlandishness n. Etymology: OE utlendisc f. utland foreign country f. OUT + LAND

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you describe something as outlandish, you disapprove of it because you think it is very unusual, strange, or unreasonable. This idea is not as outlandish as it sounds. = bizarre ADJ [disapproval]

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

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

a. 1. Foreign, strange, exotic, alien, from abroad. 2. Barbarous, strange, uncouth, queer, bizarre.

Moby Thesaurus

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