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outlandish

[out-lan-dish]

adjective

freakishly or grotesquely strange or odd, as appearance, dress, objects, ideas, or practices; bizarre: outlandish clothes; outlandish questions.

having a foreign appearance.

remote from civilized areas; out-of the-way: an outlandish settlement.

Archaic. foreign; alien.

Origin:
before 1000; Middle English; Old English ūtlendisc. See outland, -ish¹

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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Juries award outlandish damages in libel and other legal actions.

Some are more outlandish than others, more or less fantastical and even offensive.

Such a suggestion is not as outlandish as it might have seemed only a few years ago.

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Juries award outlandish damages in libel and other legal actions.

Some are more outlandish than others, more or less fantastical and even offensive.

Such a suggestion is not as outlandish as it might have seemed only a few years ago.

There's no shortage of theories, some of them outlandish.

The fact that someone with credentials is mis-using them to give credance to outlandish claims is even sadder.

Concept cars give automotive designers a chance to let their imaginations run wild, often with outlandish results.

Corporations have often complained that union demands are so outlandish that labor seems ready to drive them out of business.

In our case, people had theories, from the possible to the outlandish.

Some of the wackier ones have grown big through preaching outlandish things.

Boy fantasizes about his absent father, spinning outlandish tales about his dad's adventures to schoolmates.

There are even some lines of evidence that support that outlandish claim.

The premise here was simple: what would happen logically if you take an outlandish premise extremely seriously.

The imagery was diverse: occasionally outlandish and mostly ingenious.

But a more outlandish idea may yet pip them at the post.

Heck they wont even call the warmists out on some of their more outlandish claims.

It's way out there, but we're always encouraged by outlandish ideas.

Throw out the chatter of the next outlandish lease offer.

In aviation, what sounds outlandish today may be commonplace tomorrow.

They no doubt relish the idea that they can say such outlandish things with a straight face.

He was known in newsgroups primarily for his outlandish rants and tall tales.

No conspiracy has proved too outlandish or too foul to entertain.

Their alleged shenanigans included rigged salaries, outlandish expenses and perks.

Outlandish styling aside, the rest of the concept is standard custom fare.

My guess is that he found that the world listened when he made outlandish claims, but didn't when he talked common sense.

America needs fewer and simpler laws, and stricter curbs on frivolous suits and outlandish damages.

Every country has examples of controversial and outlandish sport celebrities.

In that light, the move to raise interest rates again, does not seem outlandish.

The idea that phones should have sensors is far from outlandish.

The eccentric and sometimes outlandish food suggests anything but.

The climate is favorable for so-called whistle-blowers to make outlandish claims that are no longer subjected to media scrutiny.

There are the outlandish decorations adorning walls and.

With extreme, exaggerated body parts, some predators were loaded with outlandish or disproportionately sized.

No wonder walking-tour guides get by with outlandish tales.

The others are right that you must always respond in a perfectly calm manner, even to personal attacks and outlandish claims.

All invented by scientists to try to make their outlandish theories work.

It would be an outlandish claim if the entrepreneur hadn't.

Two three-member celebrity teams compete in various outlandish games.

But visitors who are sick of heat, crowds and outlandish pavilions.

Most artist renderings of futuristic vehicles are so outlandish they verge on cartoonish.

Completing the illusion are a stone fireplace and some outlandish but likable.

The truth is that the returns begin to diminish far sooner than that outlandish extreme.

Later the authorities made the outlandish claim that the marchers had fired live bullets, killing two members of the security.

Kimes has a long history of acting erratically and making outlandish claims.

These outlandish designs will influence the cars you drive tomorrow.

On the walls were hung countless pictures and outlandish cartoons of political, sports and show business luminaries.

Mougin shelved the outlandish idea and put the dream on pause.

It would not only demonstrate the validity of some outlandish predictions of quantum.

Hard-disk storage was bulky and expensive, and the use of solid-state memory to store music would have seemed outlandish.

More than a few callers have outlandish stories to tell, and many of the guests aren't far behind.

Nolan constructs a muscular movie that resists any temptation to lighten up on the outlandish tangents.

Because the externality is so indirect, they come up with outlandish figures.

Some of the comments on here are terribly written and outlandish in nature in the best of times.

However, barring nuclear technology and ushering toward a denuclearized world seems an outlandish and far-fetched outlook.

Some unions have asked negotiated large raises and outlandish benefit packages.

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World English Dictionary

outlandish (aʊtˈlændɪʃ)

—*adj*
1.	grotesquely unconventional in appearance, habits, etc
2.	archaic foreign

out'landishly

—*adv*

out'landishness

—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

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"not of Boer birth" (1892) and was a loan-transl. of S.African Du. uitlander.

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