Outrageous

Quick meaning: Outrageous is an adjective meaning Violating morality or decency; provoking indignation or affront.

Meaning

Violating morality or decency; provoking indignation or affront.

More Meanings

1. Transgressing reasonable limits; extravagant, immoderate.
2. Shocking; exceeding conventional behaviour; provocative.
3. (now rare) Fierce, violent.

Example Sentences

For els my feeble vessell, crazd and crackt / Through thy strong buffets and outrageous blowes, / Cannot endure, but needes it must be wrackt [...].

"It's something I really am quite nervous about," he admits, before adding, with relish: "You have to be a bit outrageous and challenging sometimes."

Audience members praised McKellen, best known for Shakespearean roles and as Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings, for his show-stealing turn as Twankey in a series of outrageous glitzy dresses.

For when he knew his Rival freed and gone, / He ſwells with Wrath; he makes outrageous Moan: / He frets, he fumes, he ſtares, he ſtamps the Ground; / The hollow Tow'r with Clamours rings around: […]

Word Forms

• outragious

Synonyms for outrageous

Depending on context, synonyms include preposterous, exorbitant, hideous, horrid, offensive, horrific.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include offensive, horrific, hideous, horrid, unconscionable, immoderate.

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