outlandish

[out-lan-dish] / aʊtˈlæn dɪʃ /

ADJECTIVE

bizarre, strange

Synonyms

STRONGEST

eccentric extravagant fantastic far-out grotesque odd outrageous peculiar preposterous ridiculous rude unconventional unusual weird whimsical

WEAK

alien awkward barbaric barbarous boorish clumsy curious droll erratic exotic foreign freakish gauche graceless kinky outre outré quaint singular tasteless ultra uncouth unheard-of unorthodox wild

Antonyms

STRONGEST

common conventional familiar nice normal ordinary plain reasonable regular sensible standard usual

Example Sentences

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I know — some people may think this is an outlandish idea.

From MarketWatch • May 1, 2026

That trees relate to one another is an idea once thought outlandish but now widely accepted.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

Outdoors: Of all of Pynchon’s outlandish novels, “Mason & Dixon” is, literally, the wildest.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026

One of the more outlandish proposed solutions to climate change is to install orbiting fleets of mirrored satellites that can deflect sunlight, so cooling the planet.

From Salon • Apr. 4, 2026

Now she had seen him walk across the room, the other possibility, that he could have been killed, seemed outlandish, against all the odds.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

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