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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Highly unconventional; eccentric or bizarre: "outré and affected stage antics” ( Michael Heaton).

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Passing the bounds of what is usual and proper, or conventionally correct; extravagantly odd or peculiar; fantastically or preposterously exaggerated.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Very unconventional.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Out of the common course or limits; extravagant{2}; bizarre; outlandish{2}.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual

Etymologies

  1. French outré, form of outrer ("to go to excess"); see also outre ("beyond"). (Wiktionary)
  2. French, from Old French, defeated, past participle of outrer, to pass someone, from outre, beyond, from Latin ultrā; see al-1 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  1. extravagant{2}
  1. bizarre
  1. outlandish
  1. Od
  1. eccentric

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  1. unconventional

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  2. existe
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  1. compte
  2. vioxx
  3. parceque
  1. trouvez
  2. profiter
  3. ceci
  1. parfait
  2. n'importe
  3. divin
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  1. outré
  1. clumsy

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  1. french

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  • whichbe Conspicuously unconventional, eccentric, or bizarre. (from WordCraft) May 20, 2008

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