Outlandish

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Outlandish \Out*land"ish\, a. [AS. [=u]tlendisc foreign. See
     {Out}, {Land}, and {-ish}.]
     1. Foreign; not native. [archaic]
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              Him did outlandish women cause to sin. --Neh. xiii.


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              Its barley water and its outlandish wines. --G. W.
                                                    Cable.
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     2. Hence: Deviating conspicuously from common practice;
        strange; freakish; bizarre; rude; barbarous; uncouth;
        clownish; as, an outlandish dress, behavior, or speech; --
        usually used in a negative sense.
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              Something outlandish, unearthy, or at variance with
              ordinary fashion.                     --Hawthorne.
        [1913 Webster] --{Out*land"ish*ly}, adv.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  outlandish
       adj : 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}, {off-the-wall}, {outre}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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