outlandish
Adjective Satellite
- conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual
- "the outlandish clothes of teenagers"
Adj
- Of or from a foreign country; not indigenous or native; alien, foreign.
- Appearing to be foreign; strange, unfamiliar.
- Greatly different from common experience; bizarre, outrageous, strange.
- Of a place: far away from where most people are located; in the middle of nowhere, out of the way, remote.
Noun
- A foreign language.
Examples
- The rock star wore black with outlandish pink and green spiked hair.
Origin / Etymology
The adjective is derived from Middle English outlandisch, outlondish (“foreign”), from Old English ūtlendisċ (“foreign; strange, outlandish”), from Proto-West Germanic *ūtlandisk, from Proto-Germanic *ūtlandiskaz, from *ūtlandą (“(adjective) alien, foreign; relating to outlying land; (noun) foreign land; outlying land”) + *-iskaz (suffix forming adjectives from nouns with the sense ‘characteristic of; pertaining to’). *Ūtlandą is derived from *ūt- (suffix meaning ‘beyond; external to, on the outside of’) (from Proto-Indo-European *úd (“away; out, outward; upwards”)) + *landą (“area of ground, land”) (from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“heath; land”)). By surface analysis, outland + -ish. The noun is derived from the adjective.
Cognates
* Danish udenlandsk (“foreign, non-domestic”)
* Dutch uitlands (dated) (now buitenlands (“foreign, non-domestic”)), Dutch uitlandig (“absent from the home country”) (now chiefly Suriname)
* Faroese útlendskur (“foreign, non-domestic”)
* German ausländisch (“foreign, non-domestic”)
* Icelandic útlenskur (“foreign”)
* Swedish utländsk (“foreign, non-domestic”)
Synonyms
bizarre, eccentric, flakey, flaky, freakish, freaky, gonzo, off-the-wall, outre, aberrant, abnormal, acquired, additional, adventitious, alien, anomalous, as queer as Dick's hatband, ascititious, curious, deviant, discrepant, distant, eerie, eldritch, errant, exceptional, extraneous, extraordinary, far, far-flung, far-off, faraway, fey, forby, foreign, freak, fremd, funny, heteroclite, hinky, in the boondocks, incongruitous, incongruous, intrusive, irregular, kooky, monstrous, non-native, nonstandard, odd, out of the ordinary, out of the way, outlandish, outlying, outré, peculiar, quaint, queer, queer as Dick's hatband, queer as a clockwork orange, queer as a coot, queer as a nine bob note, queer as a three dollar bill, rare, remote, rum, rummy, selcouth, seld, singular, strange, supplemental, trippy, uncanny, uncommon, unconventional, unearthly, unexpected, unreasonable, unusual, unwonted, weird, weirdsome, yampy
Antonyms
allochthonous, conspicuous, different, distant, egregious, exceptional, foreign, historic, inlandish, interesting, memorable, notable, noteworthy, outstanding, remarkable, special, strange, unique, unoutlandish
Scrabble Score: 14
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