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out⋅land⋅ish

  [out-lan-dish]
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–adjective
1. freakishly or grotesquely strange or odd, as appearance, dress, objects, ideas, or practices; bizarre: outlandish clothes; outlandish questions.
2. having a foreign appearance.
3. remote from civilized areas; out-of the-way: an outlandish settlement.
4. Archaic. foreign; alien.
Origin:
bef. 1000; ME; OE ūtlendisc. See outland, -ish 1

Related forms:
out⋅land⋅ish⋅ly, adverb
out⋅land⋅ish⋅ness, noun

Synonyms:
1. peculiar, queer, eccentric, curious. 3. backwoods, isolated.
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out·land·ish   (out-lān'dĭsh)   
adj.  

  1. Conspicuously unconventional; bizarre. See Synonyms at strange.

  2. Strikingly unfamiliar.

  3. Located far from civilized areas.

  4. Archaic Of foreign origin; not native.

out·land'ish·ly adv., out·land'ish·ness n.
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Word Origin & History

outlandish 
O.E. utlendisc "of a foreign country," from utland "foreign land," lit. "outland" (see out + land). Sense of "unfamiliar, strange, odd, bizarre" (such as the customs of foreigners may seem to natives) is attested from 1596. Outlander in S.African Eng. had a specific sense of "not of Boer birth" (1892) and was a loan-transl. of S.African Du. uitlander.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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