Outlandish

outlandish
    adj 1: 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}, {flakey}, {gonzo}, {off-
           the-wall}, {outlandish}, {outre}]
    

Outlandish \Out*land"ish\, a. [AS. [=u]tlendisc foreign. See
   {Out}, {Land}, and {-ish}.]
   1. Foreign; not native. [archaic]
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            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.
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            Something outlandish, unearthy, or at variance with
            ordinary fashion.                     --Hawthorne.
      [1913 Webster] --{Out*land"ish*ly}, adv.
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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