outlandish en · ADJ
Pronunciation
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- [ˌaʊ̯t-] (Received-Pronunciation)
- [ˌaʊ̯t-] (General-American)
- (New-Jersey) audio
- /ˌaʊtˈlændɪʃ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˌaʊtˈlændɪʃ/ (General-American)
- [-ˈlɛən-] (General-American)
- /ˌæɔtˈlændɪʃ/ (Australia)
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”)
Meanings
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(archaic) Of or from a foreign country; not indigenous or native; alien, foreign.
[I]f breeding amongſt Chriſtians vvas as much encouraged as amongſt Dogs and Horſes, vve need not be making Lavvs to let in a Parcel of outlandiſh Locuſts to eat us all up.
1752, Samuel Foote, Taste. A Comedy, […], London: […] R[ichard] Francklin, […], →OCLC, Act I, page 9:Apiſhneſſe rides in a Chariot made of nothing but cages, in which are all the ſtrangeſt out-landiſh Birds that can be gotten: […]
1606, Tho[mas] Dekker, “Apishnesse: Or The First Dayes Triumph”, in The Seuen Deadly Sinnes of London: […], London: […] E[dward] A[llde] for Nathaniel Butter, […], →OCLC, page 32: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.
1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Ponder […], →OCLC, page 123:[H]e did not like the name of the outlandish man with the golden clock in his stockings.
1711 May 3 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison], “SUNDAY, April 23, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 46; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume I, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC, page 302:[W]e haue bꝛokẽ thy ſtatutes ⁊ cõmaundementes agayne, ⁊ mengled o^ꝛ ſelues wᵗ the vnclẽnes of the outlandiſh heithen.
1535 October 14 (Gregorian calendar), Myles Coverdale, transl., Biblia: The Byble, […] (Coverdale Bible), [Cologne or Marburg]: [Eucharius Cervicornus and Johannes Soter?], →OCLC, III. Essdras [1 Esdras] viij:[87], folio vij, verso, column 2:Slightly observant of the smoky lights; of the people, pipe in mouth, playing with limp cards and yellow dominoes; of the one bare-breasted, bare-armed, soot-begrimed workman reading a journal aloud, and of the others listening to him; of the weapons worn, or laid aside to be resumed; of the two or three customers fallen forward asleep, who in the popular, high-shouldered shaggy black spencer looked, in that attitude, like slumbering bears or dogs; the two outlandish customers approached the counter, and showed what they wanted.
1859, Charles Dickens, “A Hand at Cards”, in A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, book III (The Track of a Storm), page 197:Did not Solomon king of Iſrael ſinne by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, who was beloued of his God, and God made him king ouer all Iſrael: neuertheleſſe, euen him did outlandiſh women cauſe to ſinne.
1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Nehemiah 13:26, column 2:
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(broadly) Appearing to be foreign; strange, unfamiliar.
Roast beef and plum pudding are also held in superstitious veneration, and port and sherry maintain their grounds as the only true English wines; all others being considered vile outlandish beverages.
1820 September 13, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], “Little Britain”, in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., number VII, New York, N.Y.: […] C[ornelius] S. Van Winkle, […], →OCLC, pages 97–98:I believe, Lady, your Ladyſhip obſerved a young VVoman at Church yeſterday at Even-ſong, vvho vvas dreſt in one of your outlandiſh Garments; I think I have ſeen your Ladyſhip in ſuch a one. Hovvever, in the Country, ſuch Dreſſes are / Rara avis in Terris, nigroq; ſimillima Cycno, / That is, Madam, as much to ſay, / A rare Bird upon the Earth, and very like a black Svvan.
1749, Henry Fielding, “A Story Told by Mr. Supple, the Curate. The Penetration of Squire Western. His Great Love for His Daughter, and the Return to It Made by Her.”, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume II, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book IV, pages 67–68:
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(broadly) Greatly different from common experience; bizarre, outrageous, strange.
He was an outlandish figure, with his wide-brimmed hat and pointed beard, among those country folk, and it was easy to see that they thought him very queer; but his spirits were so high, his enthusiasm so contagious, that it was impossible not to like him.
1915, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter CXIX, in Of Human Bondage, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC, page 631:The rock star wore black with outlandish pink and green spiked hair.
I hardly need to add that this story requires outlandish assumptions to make investment behaviour more passive than one would expect it to be in an industrial capitalist economy.
1969 (date delivered), R[obert] M[erton] Solow, “Characteristics of Steady States”, in Growth Theory: An Exposition […], London: Clarendon Press, published 1970, →OCLC, page 13:[T]hoſe Laſciuious, Immodeſt, VVhoriſh, or vngodly Faſhions, and Attires, vvhich Metamorphiſe, and Transforme, our Light, and Giddie Females of the Superior and Gentile ranke, into ſundry Antique, Horred, and Out-landiſh ſhapes, from day, to day: […]
1628, William Prynne, The Vnlouelinesse, of Louelockes. Or, A Summarie Discourse, Proouing: The Wearing, and Nourishing of a Locke, or Loue-locke, to be Altogether Vnseemely, and Vnlawfull unto Christians. […], London: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 1:Except for an eye-catching sky-blue container boldly and attractively featuring the B.T.C.'s "door-to-door" arrow symbol[…], there were no outlandish colour schemes or lettering styles.
1961 July, “Talking of Trains: The Marylebone Exhibition”, in Trains Illustrated, London: Ian Allan Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 388:
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(broadly, derogatory) Of a place: far away from where most people are located; in the middle of nowhere, out of the way, remote.
It will be very convenient to have a medical man—if he is clever—in one's own parish. I get dreadfully nervous sometimes, living in such an outlandish place; and Sherton is so far to send to.
1886 May – 1887 April, Thomas Hardy, chapter VIII, in The Woodlanders […], volume I, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published 1887, →OCLC, page 151:I will take this occasion of adding that we are both enjoying ourselves in these outlandish parts, and only wish for the presence of our friends (yourself and John, to wit) to make the trip perfectly enjoyable as it promises to be instructive.
1915, Virginia Woolf, chapter III, in The Voyage Out, London: Duckworth & Co., […], →OCLC, page 54:
Forms
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| more outlandish | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most outlandish | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |
Antonyms
close · unremarkable · autochthonal · everyday · expected · near · unstrange · inlandish · plain vanilla · natural · conventional · nearby · citerior · indigenous · close by · quotidian · plain · basic · present · normal · workaday · around the corner · usual · aboriginal · medial · average · propinquitous · congruent · proximate · common-and-garden · native · unoutlandish · par · standard issue · mundane · garden variety · run-of-the-mill · wakeaday · endemic · customary · standard · bog-standard · ordinary · common-or-garden · regular · autochthonous · commonplace · nigh · typical · common · immediate · unexceptional · routine · improminent · vulgar · par for the course · consistent · inlandish · unoutlandish
Deriveds
outlandisher · outlandishlike · outlandishness · unoutlandish · outlandishly
Relateds
Synonyms
errant · freakish · heteroclite · weirdsome · monstrous · freaky · weird · queer as a nine bob note · far · queer · extraordinary · foreign · rare · unexpected · outlandish · peculiar · discrepant · far-flung · outlandish · queer as a clockwork orange · distant · strange · deviant · queer as Dick's hatband · queer as a three dollar bill · additional · fey · trippy · rummy · unearthly · quaint · incongruous · in the boondocks · far-off · acquired · alien · fremd · out of the way · uncouth · uncommon · fremd · funny · queer as a coot · out of the ordinary · yampy · unwonted · remote · alien · curious · rum · extraneous · ascititious · nonstandard · unconventional · outlying · exceptional · eerie · anomalous · hinky · abnormal · odd · faraway · unusual · bizarre · selcouth · forby · freak · intrusive · unreasonable · incongruitous · aberrant · outlandish · tramontane · outré · seld · kooky · booky · supplemental · strange · singular · irregular · as queer as Dick's hatband · eldritch · adventitious · non-native · uncanny
Translations (61)
mi pakepakehā (greatly different from common experience — see also bizarre, outrageous, strange) · es extravagante (greatly different from common experience — see also bizarre, outrageous, strange) · pl cudaczny (greatly different from common experience — see also bizarre, outrageous, strange) · af uitheems (of or from a foreign country; not indigenous or native — see also alien, foreign) · it straniero (greatly different from common experience — see also bizarre, outrageous, strange) · ca estrafolari (greatly different from common experience — see also bizarre, outrageous, strange) · pt estranho (greatly different from common experience — see also bizarre, outrageous, strange) · fi vierasmaalainen (of or from a foreign country; not indigenous or native — see also alien, foreign) · bg необичаен (greatly different from common experience — see also bizarre, outrageous, strange) · es estrafalario (greatly different from common experience — see also bizarre, outrageous, strange) · it straniero (of or from a foreign country; not indigenous or native — see also alien, foreign) · es abracadabrante (greatly different from common experience — see also bizarre, outrageous, strange) · pt bizarro (greatly different from common experience — see also bizarre, outrageous, strange) · fi vieras (of or from a foreign country; not indigenous or native — see also alien, foreign) · mi pākehakeha (greatly different from common experience — see also bizarre, outrageous, strange) · de sonderbar (greatly different from common experience — see also bizarre, outrageous, strange) · it stravagante (greatly different from common experience — see also bizarre, outrageous, strange) · fr étrange (greatly different from common experience — see also bizarre, outrageous, strange) · nl vreemd (of or from a foreign country; not indigenous or native — see also alien, foreign) · af vreemd (greatly different from common experience — see also bizarre, outrageous, strange) · nl uitheems (of or from a foreign country; not indigenous or native — see also alien, foreign) · es insólito (greatly different from common experience — see also bizarre, outrageous, strange) · ca estrambòtic (greatly different from common experience — see also bizarre, outrageous, strange) · da udenlandsk (of or from a foreign country; not indigenous or native — see also alien, foreign) · de fremdartig (of or from a foreign country; not indigenous or native — see also alien, foreign) · fi outo (greatly different from common experience — see also bizarre, outrageous, strange) · es inverosímil (greatly different from common experience — see also bizarre, outrageous, strange) · es peregrino (greatly different from common experience — see also bizarre, outrageous, strange) · de ausländisch (of or from a foreign country; not indigenous or native — see also alien, foreign) · fi muukalainen (of or from a foreign country; not indigenous or native — see also alien, foreign) · nl buitenissig (greatly different from common experience — see also bizarre, outrageous, strange) · fr bizarre (greatly different from common experience — see also bizarre, outrageous, strange) · oc esquèr (greatly different from common experience — see also bizarre, outrageous, strange) · mk туѓ (of or from a foreign country; not indigenous or native — see also alien, foreign) · mk стра́нски (of or from a foreign country; not indigenous or native — see also alien, foreign) · es descabellado (greatly different from common experience — see also bizarre, outrageous, strange) · bg чуждестранен (of or from a foreign country; not indigenous or native — see also alien, foreign) · nl raar (greatly different from common experience — see also bizarre, outrageous, strange) · af buitelands (of or from a foreign country; not indigenous or native — see also alien, foreign) · es disparatado (greatly different from common experience — see also bizarre, outrageous, strange) · pt forasteiro (of or from a foreign country; not indigenous or native — see also alien, foreign) · oc estranh (greatly different from common experience — see also bizarre, outrageous, strange) · es rocambolesco (greatly different from common experience — see also bizarre, outrageous, strange) · it bizzarro (greatly different from common experience — see also bizarre, outrageous, strange) · fi ulkomaalainen (of or from a foreign country; not indigenous or native — see also alien, foreign) · pt insólito (greatly different from common experience — see also bizarre, outrageous, strange) · pt estrangeiro (of or from a foreign country; not indigenous or native — see also alien, foreign) · es estrambótico (greatly different from common experience — see also bizarre, outrageous, strange) · nl vreemd (greatly different from common experience — see also bizarre, outrageous, strange) · de seltsam (greatly different from common experience — see also bizarre, outrageous, strange) · ru неле́пый (greatly different from common experience — see also bizarre, outrageous, strange) · fi hätkähdyttävä (greatly different from common experience — see also bizarre, outrageous, strange) · oc esquerrenc (greatly different from common experience — see also bizarre, outrageous, strange) · nl buitenlands (of or from a foreign country; not indigenous or native — see also alien, foreign) · mk чу́ден (greatly different from common experience — see also bizarre, outrageous, strange) · fr insolite (greatly different from common experience — see also bizarre, outrageous, strange) · mi rāwaho (of or from a foreign country; not indigenous or native — see also alien, foreign) · fi kummallinen (greatly different from common experience — see also bizarre, outrageous, strange) · it strano (greatly different from common experience — see also bizarre, outrageous, strange) · de haarsträubend (greatly different from common experience — see also bizarre, outrageous, strange) · bg чудат (greatly different from common experience — see also bizarre, outrageous, strange)