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.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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