Outlandish

Quick meaning: Outlandish is an adjective meaning Appearing to be foreign; strange, unfamiliar.

Meaning

Appearing to be foreign; strange, unfamiliar.

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

[H]e did not like the name of the outlandish man with the golden clock in his stockings.

[W]e haue bꝛokẽ thy ſtatutes ⁊ cõmaundementes agayne, ⁊ mengled o^ꝛ ſelues wᵗ the vnclẽnes of the outlandiſh heithen.

Apiſhneſſe rides in a Chariot made of nothing but cages, in which are all the ſtrangeſt out-landiſh Birds that can be gotten: […]

The people therefore of the fair made a great gazing upon them: Some ſaid they vvere Fools, ſome they vvere Bedlams, and ſome they are Outlandiſh-men.

Synonyms for outlandish

Depending on context, synonyms include non-native, acquired, additional, adventitious, alien, ascititious.

Antonyms for outlandish

Common opposites include inlandish, unoutlandish, aboriginal, autochthonal, autochthonous, endemic.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include bizarre, freaky, freakish, unconventional, eccentric, outre.

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