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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual;
- Example: "restaurants of bizarre design--one like a hat, another like a rabbit"
- Example: "famed for his eccentric spelling"
- Example: "a freakish combination of styles"
- Example: "his off-the-wall antics"
- Example: "the outlandish clothes of teenagers"
- Example: "outre and affected stage antics"
[syn: bizarre, eccentric, freakish, freaky, flaky, flakey, gonzo, off-the-wall, outlandish, outre]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Outr'e \Ou`tr['e]"\, a. [F., p.p. of outer to exaggerate, fr. L. ultra beyond. See Outrage.] Out of the common course or limits; extravagant[2]; bizarre; outlandish[2]; as, an outr['e] costume. [Webster 1913 Suppl. + PJC] My first mental development had in it much of the uncommon -- even much of the outr['e]. --E. A. Poe. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

outre 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]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

31 Moby Thesaurus words for "outre": absurd, beyond belief, bizarre, cockamamie, crazy, extravagant, fantastic, foolish, freakish, grotesque, high-flown, incredible, kinky, laughable, ludicrous, monstrous, nonsensical, odd, out-of-the-way, outlandish, outrageous, peculiar, poppycockish, preposterous, ridiculous, strange, ultra, unconventional, unusual, weird, wild