Outrageous

3 definitions found

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

  Outrageous \Out*ra"geous\ (out*r[=a]"j[u^]s), a. [OF. outrageus,
     F. outrageux. See {Outrage}, n.]
     Of the nature of an outrage; exceeding the limits of right,
     reason, or decency; such as to cause outrage; 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.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     Syn: Violent; furious; exorbitant; excessive; atrocious;
          monstrous; wanton; nefarious; heinous.
          [1913 Webster] -- {Out*ra"geous*ly}
          (out*r[=a]"j[u^]s*l[y^]), adv. -- {Out*ra"geous*ness},
          n.
          [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  outrageous
       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}]
       2: greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation;
          "exorbitant rent"; "extortionate prices"; "spends an
          outrageous amount on entertainment"; "usorious interest
          rate"; "unconscionable spending" [syn: {exorbitant}, {extortionate},
           {steep}, {unconscionable}, {usurious}]

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

  249 Moby Thesaurus words for "outrageous":
     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