Adjective
outré (comparative more outré, superlative most outré)
- Beyond what is customary or proper; extravagant.
1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter VIII, in Emma: […], volume II, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC, page 152:I believe I have been very rude; but really Miss Fairfax has done her hair in so odd a way—so very odd a way—that I cannot keep my eyes from her. I never saw any thing so outrée!—Those curls!—This must be a fancy of her own. I see nobody else looking like her!
1903, Samuel Butler, chapter 50, in The Way of All Flesh:He hated people who did not know where to stop. Ernest was always so outré and strange; there was never any knowing what he would do next, except that it would be something unusual and silly.
2021 July 17, Jacob Bernstein, “Keith McNally Stirs the Pot”, in The New York Times:Are his patrons simply too giddy in this post-pandemic moment to muster sustained outrage over his outré behavior?
- Very unconventional.
- 1992, David Littlejohn, The Ultimate Art: Essays Around and About Opera, Chapter 16: The Twentieth Century Takes on Shakespeare, page 261,
- To begin with, King Lear is the most unconventional, the most nearly hysterical, the most outré and outrageous play Shakespeare ever wrote.
Translations
very unconventional
- Bulgarian: ексцентричен (bg) (ekscentričen)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 偏离常规的, 荒诞的
- Dutch: extravagant (nl), excentriek (nl)
- Finnish: omintakeinen (fi), omituinen (fi), poikkeuksellinen (fi), outo (fi), äärimmäinen (fi)
- German: extravagant (de), exzentrisch (de)
- Russian: стра́нный (ru) (stránnyj), необы́чный (ru) (neobýčnyj), эксцентричный (ru) (ekscentričnyj), шокирующий (ru) (šokirujuščij)
- Spanish: extravagante (es)
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