Outrageous

Definition: Outrageous

Outrageous

Adjective

1. Grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror; "subjected to outrageous cruelty"; "a hideous pattern of injustice"; "horrific conditions in the mining industry".

2. Greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation; "exorbitant rent"; "extortionate prices"; "spends an outrageous amount on entertainment"; "usorious interest rate"; "unconscionable spending".

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Date "outrageous" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Etymology: Outrageous \Out*ra"geous\, adjective. [Old French expression outrageus, French outrageux. See Outrage, noun.]. (references)

Synonyms: Outrageous

Disrepute

Shameful; disgraceful, discreditable, disreputable; despicable; questionable; unbecoming, unworthy; derogatory; degrading, humiliating, infra dignitatem, dedecorous; scandalous, infamous, too bad, unmentionable; ribald, opprobrious; errant, shocking, outrageous, notorious.

Greatness

Vast, immense, enormous, extreme; inordinate, excessive, extravagant, exorbitant, outrageous, preposterous, unconscionable, swinging, monstrous, overgrown; towering, stupendous, prodigious, astonishing, incredible; marvelous.

Violence

Turbulent; disorderly; blustering, raging; Verb: troublous, riotous; tumultuary, tumultuous; obstreperous, uproarious; extravagant; unmitigated; ravening, inextinguishable, tameless; frenzied; (insane). desperate; (rash); infuriate, furious, outrageous, frantic, hysteric, in hysterics.

Crosswords: Outrageous

Why do you think I have this outrageous accent, you silly king (Monty Python and the Holy Grail; writing credit: Graham Chapman; John Cleese)

That a pretty girl with an outrageous manner means more to an old pro like me than a quarter of a million dollars (Charade; writing credit: Peter Stone; Marc Behm)

Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing, end them (Hamlet; writing credit: William Shakespeare; Kenneth Branagh)

Super, dope, def, and even outrageous (Get Ready For This; performing artist: 2 Unlimited)

The demands to do something about this outrageous (Rasputin; performing artist: BONEY M)

Captains Outrageous (1952)

Outrageous Celebrity Look-Alike Behavior Caught on Tape (2003)

The Absolutely Outrageous Adventures of the Politically Incorrect Bikini Babes of Arizona (1997)

Outrageous Taxi Stories (1989)

Stephanie's Outrageous (1988)

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Books

• An Underground Education: The Unauthorized and Outrageous Supplement to Everything You Thought You Knew About Art, Sex, Business, Crime, Science, med (reference)

• Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy (reference)

• God's Outrageous Claims (reference)

• Positively Outrageous Service (reference)

• Zobmondo: The Outrageous Book of Bizarre Choices (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Survivor - Season One: The Greatest and Most Outrageous Moments (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• From Authentic to Outrageous Bach (reference)

• Gay Classics: Outrageous (reference)

• Outrageous (reference)

• Outrageous & Outspoken (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Gentlemen, this is outrageous. Credit: Library of Congress.

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To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms a gainst a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them

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Health

My poor dear husband didn't stop me very much unless it was too outrageous and then I'd get very angry. (references)

Travel

Bulgaria

Travelers who pre-negotiate a fare can avoid the more outrageous overcharging. (references)

Spain

Numerous American citizens contact the Embassy saying a cab driver charged them an outrageous fee. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "outrageous": outrageous behavior ♦ outrageous behaviour ♦ outrageous treatment. Additional references.

Ending with "outrageous": not-outrageous.

Albanian

mizor (atrocious, cruel, despiteful, draconian, draconic, ferocious, fiendish, inhuman, pitiless, savage), i egër (atrocious, barbarous, bestial, cannibalic, cannibalish, cruel, despiteful, ferae naturae, feral, ferine, ferocious, fierce, furious, merciless, rabid, savage, snappish, tigerish, tigrish, vicious, wild), fyes (abusive, insulting, offender, offensive, vituperative). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فاضح (disgraceful, egregious, flagrant, glaring, gross, infamous, scandalous, shameful), ‏فظيع (abominable, atrocious, detestable, flagrant, gross, hideous, horrible, horrid, monstrous, shocking, terrible, ugly), ‏مهين (contemptible, degrading, despicable, despised, insulting, menial, offending, offensive), ‏مخز (debasing, degrading, discreditable, disgraceful, dishonorable, dishonourable, humiliating, ignominious, infamous, scandalous, shameful, shameless), ‏هذا مستحيل, ‏تجاوز الحدود (bound, excess, overstep), ‏عنيف (bitter, dragon's, drastic, fell, fierce, gory, heady, impetuous, knockabout, passionate, rabid, rigorous, robust, rough, rude, ruthless, scurrilous, set, severe, sharp, shrewd, smart, stiff, stout, strenuous, stringent, strong, torricellian, tough, tumultuous, turbulent, vehement, violent, volcanic), ‏صعب (arduous, complicate, complicated, difficult, formidable, frustrating, hard and fast, harsh, hot stuff, knotty, lean, malaise, mure, nice, risque, rough, rum, severe, sticky, stony, tartar, tricky, uneasy), ‏صارخ (blatant, crying, flamboyant, fortissimo, garish, gaudy, jarring, loud, lurid, noisy, rank, sharp, showy, staring, trumpery, violent), ‏شنيع (atrocious, awful, crying, enormous, foul, ghastly, ghoulish, gruesome, heinous, hideous, monstrous, nefarious, obnoxious, ugly), ‏شائن (abominate, black, disgraceful, disgusting, dishonorable, dishonourable, heinous, hideous, ignominious, infamous, inglorious, nefarious). (various references)

Bulgarian 

скандален (flagrant, glaring, infamous, monstrous, scandalous, shameful, shocking), свиреп (ferocious, fierce, grim, lupine, rabid, savage, truculent), възмутителен (disgusting, revolting, scandalous, shameful, shocking, ungodly), очеваден (apparent, evil, glaring, vicious), нечуван (egregious, ungodly, unheard of, unprecedented), насилнически (rough-shod), жесток (bestial, bloody, butcherly, cruel, dark, diabolic, diabolical, draconian, draconic, fell, ferocious, fiendish, fierce, ghoulish, grinding, harsh, ill, infernal, inhuman, inhumane, iron, mean, merciless, monstrous, sanguinary, shrewd, slashing, truculent, unfeeling, unkind, unmerciful, unrelenting), ексцентричен (bizarre, cranky, eccentric, kinky, lunatic, off beat, original, outre, peculiar, pixilated, queer, singular, viewy), екстравагантен (extravagant, high-flown, quizzical, rakish, viewy), безобразен (disgraceful, horrible, monstrous), безбожен (godless, irreligious, unchristian, ungodly, unholy, wicked). (various references)

Chinese 

粗暴 (Crude, rowdy, rudeness), 不像話 (shocking, unreasonable). (various references)

Czech

urážlivý (abusive, contumelious, huffish, huffy, hurtful, injurious, invective, obnoxious, offensive, petulant, shocking, touchy), skandální (disgraceful, scandalous, shocking), pobuřující (exasperating, inflammatory, scandalous), násilnický (tyrannical, violent), hrubý (abusive, blue, boorish, brut, brutish, coarse, coarsened, crass, crude, foul-mouthed, grating, gross, gruff, harsh, howling, knockabout, leathery, low, raw, rough, rough and ready, ruddy, rude, rustic, scabrous, sylvan, uncouth, uneven, unmannerly, unprintable, vulgar). (various references)

Farsi 

عصبانی کننده (Provocative), ظالمانه (Burdensome, Tyrannical, Tyrannous), بیدادگرانه . (various references)

Finnish

ilkivaltainen (disorderly, mischievous). (various references)

French

scandaleux. (various references)

German

empörend (scandalous, scandalously), frevelhaft (sacrilegious, sinful, wanton). (various references)

Greek 

σκανδαλώδης, προκλητικόσ (defiant, provocative, provoking), εξωφρενικός (exorbitant), αισχρόσ (bawdy, disgraceful, ignominious, nefarious, obscene, salacious, shameful, shocking, smutty, wicked), αποτρόπαιοσ (abominable, execrable, heinous). (various references)

Hebrew 

מזעזע (distressing, shocking, staggering). (various references)

Hungarian

vérlázító (flagrant, flagrantly), tikkasztó (oppressive, sultry, sweltering), sértő (abuse, hurtful, jeer, offending, offensive, scurrilous, vituperative), mértéktelen (beyond measure, excessive, immoderate, incontinent, inordinate, intemperate, loose, sodden face, to know no bounds, to know no measure, to lose all sense of proportion), gyalázatos (abominable, damnable, disgraceful, dishonorable, dishonour, dishonourable, disreputable, monstrous, nefarious, opprobrious, rotter), gyötrõ (excruciating, obsessive, worrisome), gyötrő (crucifying, excruciating, mortifying, nagging, tormentor, trying), felháborító (disgusting, flagrant, revolting, scandalous, shocking), botrányos (crying shame, flagrant, scandalous, shocking), borzalmas (awful, desperate, direful, gruesome, horrid, scary), égbekiáltó (blatant, crying, flagrant). (various references)

Italian

violente, scellerato (evil, outrageously, sacrilegious, wicked), indignante, esorbitante (exorbitant, extortionate, sky high, steep), atroce (appalling, atrocious, dire, dreadful, excruciating, flagitious, grievous, heinous, murderous, savage, terrible). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

途方もない (absurd, extraordinary, preposterous). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きっかい (mysterious, strange, weird, wonderful), きかい (chance, instrument, machine, mechanism, mysterious, opportunity, shogi circles, strange, the goworld, weird, wonderful), ほうがい (exorbitant), かいき (a type of thin thread, bizarre, buying mood, death anniversary, foundation of a temple, laying a foundation, recovery, recurrence, recursion, revolution, session, society by-laws, strange, total eclipse, totality, weird, wonderful), ごんごどうだん (absurd, inexcusable, preposterous), むほう, けしからん (inexcusable, rude), とほうもない (absurd, extraordinary, preposterous), とんでもない (No way!, offensive, unexpected, What a thing to say!), だいそれた (appalling, inordinate, monstrous). (various references)

Korean 

포악한 (Oppressive). (various references)

Manx

ro-ghaaney (over-confident), drogh-ghellal (bad treatment, ill usage, ill-treat, maltreat, outrage). (various references)

Pig Latin

outrageousay.(various references)

Portuguese

ultrajante (offensive, opprobrious), revoltante (revolting, shocking, sickening), injurioso (contumelious, injurious, invective, libellous, opprobrious, unparliamentary, vituperative), indigno (dishonorable, dishonourable, scandal, shameful, undeserving, undignified, unmeet, unworthy, vile, worthless), escandaloso (egregious, flagrant, fruity, scandal, scandalous, shameful, shocking), chocante (abrupt, amazing, filthy, harsh, jarring, knockdown, obnoxious, odious, offensive, revolting, shocking, sickening, startling), afrontoso. (various references)

Romanian

ruşinos (bashful, discreditable, disgraceful, disgracefully, ignoble, infamous, infamously, inglorious, maidenlike, milky, nefarious, opprobrious, scandalous, shameful, sheepish, shy, sky), neruşinat (barefaced, bold, brassy, brazen faced, cheeky, frontless, graceless, impudent, indecent, nervy, ribald, saucy, shameless, unscrupulous), neleguit (malefic), insuportabil (aggravating, beyond endurance, exquisite, fierce, impossible, insufferable, insupportable, keen, obnoxious, obnoxiously, oppressive, past endurance, trying, unbearable, unbearably, unendurable), imoral (corrupt, gay, immoral, impure, lecherous, licentious, loose, nasty, scrofulous, sinful, wicked), excesiv (enormous, exceeding, exceedingly, excessive, excessively, exorbitant, extreme, intemperate, out, plethoric, redundant, redundantly, thick, to excess, undue, unduly, unreasonable), de speculã, de ocarã (opprobrious), cumplit (atrocious, cruel, dreadful, eerie, fell, ferocious, fierce, grievous, horrendous, mad, monstrous, severe, terrible, utter, uttermost), criminal (criminal, criminally, felon, felonious, flagitious, malefactor, miscreant, misdemeanant, murderer, murderous, offender, perpetrator, slayer), atroce (atrocious, atrociously, heinous, heinously, monstrous). (various references)

Russian 

возмутительный (rampageous, shocking), оскорбительный (abusive, contumelious, humiliating, injurious, insolent, insulting, invidious, mortifying, offensive, opprobrious, scurrilous), неистовый (boisterous, dithyrambic, frantic, frenetic, furious, rampageous, rampant, tearing, towering, vehement). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

sraman (disgraceful, reproachful, shameful, ungodly), razuzdan (abandoned, lawless, licentious, unbridled, uncurbed, wanton), nečuven (egregious, ungodly, unheard of). (various references)

Spanish

terrible (awful, devastating, dire, dirty, dread, dreadful, eerie, evil, fearful, ghastly, gruesome, hellish, hideous, horrible, horrid, jolly, lousy, lurid, splitting, terrible, terror, unholy, wicked), monstruoso (callous, disastrous, freak, freakish, monster, monstrous), indignante (revolting), escandaloso (aggravating, disgraceful, disorderly, egregious, flagrant, hearty, licentious, loud, monstrous, noisy, notorious, scandalous, shocking, sinful, uncontrollable, undisciplined, uproarious), atroz (atrocious, awful, black-hearted, crying, desperate, direful, heinous, lethal, racking, raging, vicious), atentatorio (outrageously, sacrilegious). (various references)

Swedish

kränkande (insulting, offensive, personal, slanderous). (various references)

Turkish

zalim (arbitrary, atrocious, bloody minded, brutal, cruel, cutthroat, daemon, demon, draconian, draconic, fell, felon, fiendish, flinty, grim, heavy, heavy-handed, ill natured, inhuman, miscreant, ogre, oppressive, oppressor, persecutor, sanguinary, savage, stony, truculent, tyrannic, tyrannical), rezil (abject, contemptible, crud, dirty, dishonorable, dishonourable, disreputable, flagitious, flagrant, groveling, grovelling, ignoble, ignominious, infamous, low down, raffish, rascal, scandal, scandalous, scoundrel, shameful, sinner, stinking, sweep, vile, villainous), acımasız (atrocious, brutal, coldhearted, cruel, cutthroat, dead, despot, ferocious, fiendish, flinty, grim, hard-hearted, harsh, implacable, inclement, inexorable, inhumane, merciless, pitiless, relentless, ruthless, slashing, stern, truculent, tyrannic, tyrannical, tyrannous, unmerciful, unpitied, unrelenting, without remorse), aşırı kötü, aşırı (acute, beastly, beyond, breakneck, camp, confoundedly, cruelly, crusted, damned, dead, deep, desperate, desperately, devilish, disproportionate, every other day, exaggerated, exceeding, excessive, excessively, exorbitant, exquisite, extortionate, extravagant, extreme, extremely, fancy, ferocious, filthy, fond, fulsome, hard, heavy, hell, hell of, high, horrendous, horrific, hyper-, immoderate, inordinate, intense, intensive, like hell, like sin, over, overweening, precious, shocking, splitting, steep, super, terribly, thick, ultra, unbounded, unco, unconscionable, undue, unmeasured, unreasonable, violent), çok çirkin (plugugly). (various references)

Ukrainian

шалений (amok, amuck, boisterous, dithyrambic, ecstatic, fierce, frantic, frenzied, lunatic, mad, pelting, stormy, unruly, vehement, wild), обурливий (crying, disgraceful, exasperating, flagrant, rampageous, ridiculous, scandalous), образливий (abusive, affronting, affrontive, contumelious, humiliating, injurious, insulting, mortifying, obloquious, obscene, offending, offensive, opprobrious, ornery, pettish, resentful, slanderous, touchy, umbrageous), несамовитий (amok, amuck, delirious, ecstatic, frantic, heartbreaking, heartrending, irresponsible, non compos, passionate, phrenetic, violent), надмірний (exceeding, excessive, exorbitant, fulsome, immoderate, over, overabundant, overdue, plethoric, prodigal, profuse, racking, steep, superabundant, undue, unlimited, unreasonable), жорстокий (atrocious, barbarous, bloody minded, brutal, brute, brutish, cruel, cutthroat, despiteful, feral, ferocious, merciless, oppressive, ruthless, stern, uncharitable). (various references)

Vietnamese 

xúc phạm (offendedly, offensive), vô nhân đạo quá chừng, thái quá mãnh liệt, sỉ nhục táo bạo, làm tổn thương lăng nhục, ác liệt (fierce, slashing, sore). (various references)

improbus. (various references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "outrageous": outrageously, outrageousness, outrageousnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Outrageous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ouragons, outrageaous, outrageus, outraggeous, outragious, outragous, outreageous, outrogeous. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: outargues.

-2 letters: auguster, outargue, outrages, rootages.

-3 letters: aerugos, auteurs, garotes, orgeats, outages, outgoes, outrage, outsoar, ragouts, rootage, storage.

-4 letters: aerugo, agorot, argots, argues, arouse, augers, augurs, august, aureus, aurous, auteur, ergots, erugos, garote, gaster, gators, grates, greats, groats, grouse, grouts, oaters, orates, orgeat, ouster, outage, outers, outgas, ragout, retags, rogues, rouges, routes, rugate, rugosa.

+2 letters: outrageously.

+4 letters: outrageousness.