Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Highly unconventional; eccentric or bizarre.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Passing the bounds of what is usual and proper, or conventionally correct; extravagantly odd or peculiar; fantastically or preposterously exaggerated.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Out of the common course or limits; extravagant{2}; bizarre; outlandish{2}.
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- adjective Very
unconventional .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[French, from Old French, defeated, past participle of outrer, to pass someone, from outre, beyond, from Latin ultrā; see al- in Indo-European roots.]
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French outré, form of outrer ("to go to excess"); see also outre ("beyond").
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Conspicuously unconventional, eccentric, or bizarre. (from WordCraft)
May 20, 2008