outrageous
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Outrageous \Out*ra"geous\ (out*r[=a]"j[u^]s), a. [OF. outrageus,
F. outrageux. See {Outrage}, n.]
Of the nature of an outrage; exceeding the limits of right,
reason, or decency; such as to cause outrage; involving or
doing an outrage; furious; violent; atrocious. "Outrageous
weeping." --Chaucer. "The most outrageous villainies." --Sir
P. Sidney. "The vile, outrageous crimes." --Shak. "Outrageous
panegyric." --Dryden.
[1913 Webster]
Syn: Violent; furious; exorbitant; excessive; atrocious;
monstrous; wanton; nefarious; heinous.
[1913 Webster] -- {Out*ra"geous*ly}
(out*r[=a]"j[u^]s*l[y^]), adv. -- {Out*ra"geous*ness},
n.
[1913 Webster]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
249 Moby Thesaurus words for "outrageous":
Fescennine, a bit much, abandoned, abominable, absurd, abusive,
acute, appalling, arrant, atrocious, awful, backhand, backhanded,
barbaric, barbarous, base, beastly, beneath contempt, beneath one,
beyond belief, bizarre, blameworthy, boundless, brutal, calumnious,
cheap, cockamamie, contemptible, contumelious, crazy, cruel,
crying, cutthroat, cutting, debasing, debauched, degenerate,
degrading, demeaning, deplorable, depraved, desperate, despicable,
detestable, dire, dirty, disgraceful, disgusting, dissipated,
dissolute, drastic, dreadful, egregious, embarrassing, enormous,
evil, exacting, exaggerated, excessive, execrable, exorbitant,
explicit, extortionate, extravagant, extreme, fabulous, fancy,
fantastic, fetid, fierce, filthy, flagrant, foolish, foul,
foul-mouthed, fulsome, furious, ghastly, gigantic, gluttonous,
gouging, great, grievous, grisly, gross, grossly overpriced,
grotesque, gutter, hateful, heinous, hideous, high, high-flown,
horrendous, horrible, horrid, humiliating, humiliative, hyperbolic,
hypertrophied, immoderate, immoral, impossible, improper,
inappropriate, incontinent, incredible, indecent, indecorous,
indelicate, infamous, inflationary, infra dig, infra indignitatem,
inhuman, iniquitous, inordinate, insolent, insulting, intemperate,
intense, intolerable, keen, lamentable, laughable, left-handed,
lewd, loathsome, lousy, ludicrous, monstrous, nasty, naughty,
nauseating, nauseous, nefarious, noisome, nonmeritorious,
nonsensical, not coming, not outstanding, notorious, objectionable,
obnoxious, obscene, odious, offensive, opprobrious, out of bounds,
out of sight, outre, overbig, overdeveloped, overgreat, overgrown,
overlarge, overmuch, overpriced, overweening, perverted, piercing,
pitiable, pitiful, poppycockish, pornographic, preposterous,
profane, profligate, prohibitive, rank, regrettable, repellent,
reprehensible, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, ridiculous,
rigorous, rotten, rough, rude, sad, salacious, scandalous,
scatological, schlock, scurrile, scurrilous, scurvy, severe,
shabby, shameful, sharp, shocking, shoddy, skyrocketing, smutty,
sordid, sorry, spiraling, splitting, squalid, steep, stiff,
terrible, too bad, too much, tough, unbecoming, unbridled,
unchristian, uncivilized, unclean, unconscionable, undeserved,
undeserving, undue, unearned, unentitled, ungodly, unholy,
unjustified, unmerited, unmeriting, unowed, unowing, unreasonable,
unrestrained, unseemly, unspeakable, unthinkable, unwarranted,
unworthy, unworthy of one, usurious, vehement, venomous, vicious,
vile, villainous, violent, virulent, weird, wicked, wild, woeful,
worst, worthless, wretched
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