English Explanatory Dictionary

outlandish

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Of or from a foreign country; not indigenous or native; alien, foreign.
  2. Appearing to be foreign; strange, unfamiliar.
  3. Greatly different from common experience; bizarre, outrageous, strange.
  4. Of a place: far away from where most people are located; in the middle of nowhere, out of the way, remote.
noun
  1. A foreign language.

Pronunciation

/ˌaʊtˈlændɪʃ/ [ˌaʊ̯t-] [-ˈlɛən-] En-us-outlandish.ogg LL-Q1860 (eng)-Simplificationalizer-outlandish.wav /ˌæɔtˈlændɪʃ/

Word forms

outlandish more outlandish most outlandish

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

non-native acquired additional adventitious alien ascititious extraneous foreign fremd intrusive outlandish strange supplemental tramontane aberrant abnormal anomalous as queer as Dick's hatband bizarre booky curious deviant discrepant eerie eldritch errant exceptional extraordinary fey forby freak freakish freaky funny heteroclite hinky incongruous incongruitous irregular kooky monstrous nonstandard odd out of the ordinary outré peculiar quaint queer queer as a clockwork orange queer as a nine bob note queer as a three dollar bill queer as a coot queer as Dick's hatband rare rum rummy selcouth seld singular trippy

Antonyms

inlandish unoutlandish aboriginal autochthonal autochthonous endemic indigenous native average medial basic bog-standard common commonplace common-and-garden common-or-garden congruent consistent conventional customary everyday expected garden variety improminent mundane natural normal ordinary par for the course plain plain vanilla quotidian regular routine run-of-the-mill standard standard issue typical unexceptional unremarkable unstrange usual vulgar wakeaday workaday around the corner citerior close close by immediate near nearby nigh present propinquitous proximate

Related words

outland outlander

Derived words

outlandisher outlandishlike outlandishly outlandishness unoutlandish
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