Antonyms for outré
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : oo-trey |
| Phonetic Transcription : uˈtreɪ |
Definition of outré
Origin :- "exaggerated, extravagant, eccentric," 1722, from French outré "exaggerated, excessive, extreme," past participle of outrer "to carry to excess, overdo, overstrain, exaggerate," from outre "beyond" (see outrage).
- As in offbeat : adj strange, very different
- As in outlandish : adj bizarre, strange
- As in queer : adj odd; abnormal
- As in ultra : adj extreme
- As in uncommon : adj very different
- As in unprecedented : adj exceptional, original
- As in bizarre : adj strange, wild
- As in freakish : adj abnormal, unusual
- The result of this outre combination must have been truly remarkable.
- Extract from : « Unwritten Literature of Hawaii » by Nathaniel Bright Emerson
- The person who produced the most outre sentiment was called 'strong.'
- Extract from : « That Fortune » by Charles Dudley Warner
- But the real Bostonese do not run to outre stationery or other eccentricities.
- Extract from : « The Personality of American Cities » by Edward Hungerford
- Outre les cheuaux, & cheures qu'on y conduisoit ja pour commencemẽt de mesnage.
- Extract from : « The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. III: Acadia, 1611-1616 » by Various
- She personified the outre; nothing so incongruous as her presence in that place could well be imagined.
- Extract from : « The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu » by Sax Rohmer
- Son quipage est compos de 83 hommes, outre cinq hommes de lettres.
- Extract from : « A Voyage to Terra Australis » by Matthew Flinders
- I imagine that to be extremely rich would have appeared to him improper, outre—too blatant altogether.
- Extract from : « A Set of Six » by Joseph Conrad
- Et la fin, d'un abrg des regles generales de la Langue Angloise, en dialogues franois, outre ce qui toit dans la sixime dition.
- Extract from : « The Teaching and Cultivation of the French Language in England during Tudor and Stuart Times » by Kathleen Lambley
- Outre Quantit de Billets la fin du Livre, qui sont trs necessaires pour le commerce.
- Extract from : « The Teaching and Cultivation of the French Language in England during Tudor and Stuart Times » by Kathleen Lambley
- Passons outre, without inquiring how much George Sand knew about English girls.
- Extract from : « A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 » by George Saintsbury
Synonyms for outré
- aberrant
- abnormal
- alien
- all out
- anomalous
- arbitrary
- arcane
- atypical
- awkward
- barbaric
- barbarous
- bizarre
- bohemian
- boorish
- bugged out
- camp
- capricious
- clumsy
- comical
- crazy
- curious
- demented
- disquieting
- doubtful
- drastic
- droll
- dubious
- eccentric
- eerie
- egregious
- erratic
- exceptional
- excessive
- exotic
- extraordinary
- extravagant
- extreme
- extremist
- fanatical
- fantastic
- far-out
- few
- fishy
- flaky
- fly ball
- foreign
- freakish
- freaky
- fresh
- funny
- gauche
- gone
- graceless
- grody
- grotesque
- idiosyncratic
- immoderate
- infrequent
- irrational
- irregular
- kinky
- kooky
- ludicrous
- mad
- malformed
- marvelous
- miraculous
- modern
- monstrous
- mysterious
- new
- newfangled
- nondescript
- noteworthy
- novel
- odd
- oddball
- off the wall
- offbeat
- original
- out of bounds
- out of the ordinary
- out of the way
- out-of-the-way
- outlandish
- outrageous
- outre
- peculiar
- preposterous
- preternatural
- prodigious
- puzzling
- quaint
- queer
- questionable
- rabid
- radical
- rare
- remarkable
- revolutionary
- ridiculous
- rude
- scarce
- seldom
- shady
- signal
- singular
- sporadic
- startling
- strange
- sui generis
- surprising
- suspicious
- tasteless
- too much
- touched
- ultra
- unaccustomed
- unbalanced
- uncanny
- uncommon
- unconventional
- uncouth
- uncustomary
- unexampled
- unfamiliar
- unheard of
- unheard-of
- unhinged
- unique
- unnatural
- unorthodox
- unparalleled
- unrivaled
- unusual
- vagarious
- wacky
- way-out
- wayward
- weird
- whimsical
- wild
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