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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

OUTRE, a. ootra'y. Being out of the common course or limits; extravagant.

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]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Outr'e Ou`tr['e]", a. [F., p.p. of outer to exaggerate, fr. L. ultra beyond. See Outrage.] Out of the common course or limits; extravagant; bizarre; as, an outr['e] costume. My first mental development had in it much of the uncommon -- even much of the outr['e]. --E. A. Poe.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Outr'e Ou`tr['e]", a. [F., p. p. of outrer to exaggerate, fr. L. ultra beyond. See Outrage.] Being out of the common course or limits; extravagant; bizarre.

Moby Thesaurus

absurd, beyond belief, bizarre, cockamamie, crazy, extravagant, fantastic, foolish, freakish, grotesque, high-flown, incredible, kinky, laughable, ludicrous, monstrous, nonsensical, odd, out-of-the-way, outlandish, outrageous, peculiar, poppycockish, preposterous, ridiculous, strange, ultra, unconventional, unusual, weird, wild