Outre

3 definitions found

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

  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[2]; bizarre;
     outlandish[2]; as, an outr['e] costume.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl. + PJC]
  


           My first mental development had in it much of the
           uncommon -- even much of the outr['e].   --E. A. Poe.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  outre
       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}, {outlandish}]

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

  31 Moby Thesaurus words for "outre":
     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