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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

OUTRA'GEOUS, a.
1. Violent; furious; exorbitant; exceeding all bounds of moderation; as outrageous villainies; outrageous talk; outrageous abuse.
2. Excessive; exceeding reason or decency; as outrageous panegyric.
3. Enormous; atrocious; as outrageous crimes.
4. Tumultuous; turbulent.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror; "subjected to outrageous cruelty"; "a hideous pattern of injustice"; "horrific conditions in the mining industry" [syn: hideous, horrid, horrific, outrageous]
2: greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation; "exorbitant rent"; "extortionate prices"; "spends an outrageous amount on entertainment"; "usurious interest rate"; "unconscionable spending" [syn: exorbitant, extortionate, outrageous, steep, unconscionable, usurious]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 14th century 1. a. exceeding the limits of what is usual b. not conventional or matter-of-fact ; fantastic 2. violent, unrestrained 3. a. going beyond all standards of what is right or decent <an outrageous disregard of human rights> b. deficient in propriety or good taste <outrageous language> <outrageous manners> • outrageously adverb • outrageousness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 immoderate. 2 shocking. 3 grossly cruel. 4 immoral, offensive. Derivatives: outrageously adv. outrageousness n. Etymology: ME f. OF outrageus (as OUTRAGE)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Outrageous Out*ra"geous, a. [OF. outrageus, F. outrageux. See Outrage, n.] Of the nature of an outrage; exceeding the limits of right, reason, or decency; involving or doing an outrage; furious; violent; atrocious. ``Outrageous weeping.'' --Chaucer. ``The most outrageous villainies.'' --Sir P. Sidney. ``The vile, outrageous crimes.'' --Shak. ``Outrageous panegyric.'' --Dryden.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you describe something as outrageous, you are emphasizing that it is unacceptable or very shocking. I must apologise for my outrageous behaviour... Charges for local telephone calls are particularly outrageous. ADJ [emphasis] • outrageously Car-parks are few, crammed, and outrageously expensive... ADV: usu ADV adj

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Furious, violent, turbulent, abusive, raging, wild, mad, frantic, infuriate, frenzied. 2. Atrocious, heinous, villanous, enormous, monstrous, nefarious. 3. Excessive, exorbitant, enormous, extravagant, unwarrantable.

Moby Thesaurus

Fescennine, a bit much, abandoned, abominable, absurd, abusive, acute, appalling, arrant, atrocious, awful, backhand, backhanded, barbaric, barbarous, base, beastly, beneath contempt, beneath one, beyond belief, bizarre, blameworthy, boundless, brutal, calumnious, cheap, cockamamie, contemptible, contumelious, crazy, cruel, crying, cutthroat, cutting, debasing, debauched, degenerate, degrading, demeaning, deplorable, depraved, desperate, despicable, detestable, dire, dirty, disgraceful, disgusting, dissipated, dissolute, drastic, dreadful, egregious, embarrassing, enormous, evil, exacting, exaggerated, excessive, execrable, exorbitant, explicit, extortionate, extravagant, extreme, fabulous, fancy, fantastic, fetid, fierce, filthy, flagrant, foolish, foul, foul-mouthed, fulsome, furious, ghastly, gigantic, gluttonous, gouging, great, grievous, grisly, gross, grossly overpriced, grotesque, gutter, hateful, heinous, hideous, high, high-flown, horrendous, horrible, horrid, humiliating, humiliative, hyperbolic, hypertrophied, immoderate, immoral, impossible, improper, inappropriate, incontinent, incredible, indecent, indecorous, indelicate, infamous, inflationary, infra dig, infra indignitatem, inhuman, iniquitous, inordinate, insolent, insulting, intemperate, intense, intolerable, keen, lamentable, laughable, left-handed, lewd, loathsome, lousy, ludicrous, monstrous, nasty, naughty, nauseating, nauseous, nefarious, noisome, nonmeritorious, nonsensical, not coming, not outstanding, notorious, objectionable, obnoxious, obscene, odious, offensive, opprobrious, out of bounds, out of sight, outre, overbig, overdeveloped, overgreat, overgrown, overlarge, overmuch, overpriced, overweening, perverted, piercing, pitiable, pitiful, poppycockish, pornographic, preposterous, profane, profligate, prohibitive, rank, regrettable, repellent, reprehensible, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, ridiculous, rigorous, rotten, rough, rude, sad, salacious, scandalous, scatological, schlock, scurrile, scurrilous, scurvy, severe, shabby, shameful, sharp, shocking, shoddy, skyrocketing, smutty, sordid, sorry, spiraling, splitting, squalid, steep, stiff, terrible, too bad, too much, tough, unbecoming, unbridled, unchristian, uncivilized, unclean, unconscionable, undeserved, undeserving, undue, unearned, unentitled, ungodly, unholy, unjustified, unmerited, unmeriting, unowed, unowing, unreasonable, unrestrained, unseemly, unspeakable, unthinkable, unwarranted, unworthy, unworthy of one, usurious, vehement, venomous, vicious, vile, villainous, violent, virulent, weird, wicked, wild, woeful, worst, worthless, wretched