Outlandish \Out*land"ish\, a. [AS. [=u]tlendisc foreign. See
Out, Land, and -ish.]
1. Foreign; not native. [archaic]
[1913 Webster]
Him did outlandish women cause to sin. --Neh. xiii.
26.
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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.
[1913 Webster +PJC]
Something outlandish, unearthy, or at variance with
ordinary fashion. --Hawthorne.
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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