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outlandish adjective [ aʊtˈlandɪʃ ]

• looking or sounding bizarre or unfamiliar.
• "outlandish, brightly coloured clothes"
• foreign or alien.
• "three wise, outlandish kings"
Similar: weird, queer, offbeat, far out, freakish, grotesque, quirky, zany, eccentric, off-centre, idiosyncratic, unconventional, unorthodox, funny, bizarre, fantastic, unusual, extraordinary, strange, unfamiliar, unknown, unheard of, alien, foreign, peculiar, odd, curious, atypical, irregular, anomalous, deviant, abnormal, quaint, out of the way, ludicrous, preposterous, outré, way-out, wacky, freaky, kooky, screwy, kinky, oddball, cranky, off the wall, in left field, bizarro, backasswards, singular,
Opposite: ordinary, commonplace, conventional,
Origin: Old English ūtlendisc ‘not native’, from ūtland ‘foreign country’.


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