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Outre

Definitions: Outre

Outre

Adjective

1. Conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual; "restaurants of bizarre design--one like a hat, another like a rabbit"; "famed for his eccentric spelling"; "a freakish combination of styles"; "the outlandish clothes of teenagers"; "outre and affected stage antics".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "outre" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1832. (references)


Synonyms: Outre

Synonyms: bizarre (adj), eccentric (adj), flaky (adj), freakish (adj), freaky (adj), outlandish (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Outre

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Distance

Adverb: far off, far away; afar, afar off; off; away; a long way off, a great way off, a good way off; wide away, aloof; wide of, clear of; out of the way, out of reach; abroad, yonder, farther, further, beyond; outre mer, over the border, far and wide, "over the hills and far away "; from pole to pole; (over great space); to the uttermost parts, to the ends of the earth; out of hearing, nobody knows where, a perte de vue, out of the sphere of, wide of the mark; a far cry to.

Exaggeration

Adjective: exaggerated; Verb: overwrought; bombastic; (grandiloquent); hyperbolical, on stilts; fabulous, extravagant, preposterous, egregious, outre, highflying.

Ridiculousness

Extravagant, outre, monstrous, preposterous, bombastic, inflated, stilted, burlesque, mock heroic.

Unconformity

Unusual, unaccustomed, uncustomary, unwonted, uncommon; rare, curious, odd, extraordinary, out of the ordinary; strange, monstrous; wonderful; unexpected, unaccountable; outre, out of the way, remarkable, noteworthy; queer, quaint, nondescript, none such, sui generis; unfashionable; fantastic, grotesque, bizarre; outlandish, exotic, tombe des nues, preternatural; denaturalized.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Outre

Specialty definitions using "outre": Pommard. (references)
Etymologies containing "outre": Outrecuidance. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Outre" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (across, besides, beyond, exceedingly, excessively, hose, on the other side of, skin, too, tube, wineskin).

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Usage Frequency: Outre

"Outre" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Outre" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%3202,518

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Outre

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

outre

23

hair outre

21

olivia outre

8

mer outre

4

hair outre product

4

interim mer.com outre

4

outre quick weave

3

archive mer outre

3

hair.com outre

2

outre weave

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Outre

Language Translations for "outre"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

që shkel (derelict), i zmadhuar (enlarged, exaggerated, exaggerative, hyperbolic, hyperbolical, overdone, romantic). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

непристоен (disorderly, improper, indecent, unbecoming, unbeseeming, uncomely, undignified, unseemly), ексцентричен (bizarre, cranky, eccentric, kinky, lunatic, off beat, original, outrageous, peculiar, pixilated, queer, singular, viewy), безсрамен (barefaced, brassy, brazen, graceless, immodest, impudent, shameless, unabashed, unashamed, unscrupulous), пресилен (far fetched, recherche, strained). (various references)

   

German

  

unkonvetionell. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מופרז (exaggerated, excessive, extravagant, immoderate, inordinate, tall, undue), חרי' (anomalous, exceptional, irregular). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

túlzott (affectation, complacency, exaggerated, excessive, exorbitant, extreme, far-fetched, foppish, immodest, inordinate, obsequiousness, obsequy, over-anxious, overboard, overdone, over-excitement, overshot, steep), túlhajtott (exaggerated, over-extended). (various references)

   

Italian

  

stravagante (crackpot, eccentric, extravagant, fancy, odd, queer, whimsical). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

outreay

   

Portuguese

  

possuir nível superior a, exagerado (a bit thick, exaggeratedly, exaggerative, fulsome, gaudy, overdone, scenic, scenical, stagey, stagy, steep). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

эксцентричный (eccentric, oddish, wacky, whimsical), преувеличенный (exaggerated, fulsome, high-colored, high-coloured, hyperbolic, hyperbolical, overdone). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

preteran (exaggerated, extravagant, far gone, hyperbolical, ultra). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

outré, extravagante (aberrant, eccentric, extravagant, flamboyant, nonsensical, odd, outlandish, strange, wanton, wild). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

ексцентричний (bizarre, cranky, eccentric, eccentrical, fantastic, fantastical, odd, oddball, oddish, offbeat, queer, wacky, whacky, whimsical), екстравагантний (fancy, fantastic, fantastical, superlunary), перебільшений (colored, coloured, exaggerated, exaggerative, hyperbolic, hyperbolical, overdone, superlative, tall). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Outre

Derivations

Words beginning with "outre": outreach, outreached, outreaches, outreaching, outread, outreading, outreads, outrebound, outrebounded, outrebounding, outrebounds, outreproduce, outreproduced, outreproduces, outreproducing. (additional references)

Words ending with "outre": accoutre. (additional references)

Words containing "outre": accoutred, accoutrement, accoutrements, accoutres. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Outre

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: outer, route.

Words within the letters "e-o-r-t-u"

-1 letter: euro, rote, roue, rout, tore, tour, true.

-2 letters: ore, ort, our, out, ret, roe, rot, rue, rut, toe, tor.

-3 letters: er, et, oe, or, re, to, ut.

 Words containing the letters "e-o-r-t-u"
 

+1 letter: couter, detour, ouster, outers, pouter, quoter, redout, roquet, roupet, routed, router, routes, souter, stoure, tenour, torque, toured, tourer, touter, troupe, uptore.

 

+2 letters: cloture, clouter, cornute, coulter, counter, courted, courter, couters, couther, couture, croquet, cutover, detours, doubter, dourest, eductor, equator, estrous, flouter, foregut, fortune, gourmet, goutier, grouted, grouter, jouster, moulter, mounter, mouther, neutron, obtrude, obtuser, oestrum, oestrus, ousters, outbred, outdare, outdoer, outdrew, outearn, outfire, outgrew, outhear, outlier, outrace, outrage, outrate, outrave, outread, outride, outrode, outsert, outwear, outwore, overcut, petrous, posture, poulter, pouters, poutier, proteus, questor, quoters, readout, recount, redoubt, redouts, remount, reroute, retouch, roquets, rousted, rouster, routers, routine, scouter, shouter, sourest, souters, souther, spouter, stoures, stourie, stouter, tenours, tonsure, torqued, torquer, torques, torture, torulae, toucher, tougher, tourers, tourney, touters, trouble, trounce, trouped, trouper, troupes, trouser, tussore, tutored, tutoyer.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Outre


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4F 75 74 72 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

---    ..-    -    .-.    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001111 01110101 01110100 01110010 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#79 &#117 &#116 &#114 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004F 0075 0074 0072 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4987868471

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Non-English Dictionaries with "Outre"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Albanian

fjalor, qartësi, përcaktim, saktësi, transmetim, transferimshqip, албанец, албански език, албански, albaner, albán, albanese, albanês, албанский, albanski, albanac, albanés, албанський, албанка, албанець

Bulgarian

речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, преводbulgr, български, български език, българин, bulgare, bolgár, bulgaro, болгарский, болгарин, bugarski jezik, bugarski, bugarka, bugarin, búlgaro, болгарський

German

wörterbuch, Übersetzunggjerman, германски, немски език, немски, немец, роден, готически, германец, deutsch, Deutsche, 'רמ ית, 'רמ י, német, tedesco, alemão, немецкий, germanski, alemán, німкеня, німецький, німець

Hebrew

אוצר מילים, "'"ר", "'בל", תור'מ ות, תר'ום, "עתק", "עתקhebraishte, иврит, староеврейски език, древен жител на юдея, юдейски, израилтянин, евреин, староеврейски, юдей, hebräisch, Hebräer, עברי, עברית, zsidó, héber, izraelita, ebreo, ebraico, hebreu, hebraico, еврей, древнееврейский язык, древнееврейский, еврейский, hibru, hebreo, іудей, іврит, старо"врейська мова, старо"врейський, "врейський, "врей

Hungarian

szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordításунгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, Ungar, "ו 'רי, magyar, ungherese, венгр, венгерский, mađarski jezik, mađarski, mađar, húngaro, угорська мова, угорський, угорка, угорець

Italian

dizionario, definizione, traduzioneиталиански език, италиански, италианец, italienisch, איטלקית, איטלקי, olasz, italiano, итальянский язык, итальянец, итальянский, italijan, italijanski jezik, italijanski, італі"ць, італійська мова, італійський, італійка

Portuguese

dicionário, definição, traduçãoportugez, portugalisht, португалски, португалски език, португалец, portugiesisch, portugál, portoghese, português, португальский, portugalski jezik, portugalac, portugalski, portugués, португальський, португальська мова, португалець

Russian

словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещениеруски език, руски, руснак, Russe, russisch, רוסי, orosz, russo, русский, ruski jezik, ruski, ruso, росіянка, росіянин, російська мова, російський

Serbo-Croatian

leksikon, rečnik, definicija, tumačenjeserbokroatisch, servo-croata, srpsko-hrvatski jezik, srpsko-hrvatski

Spanish

diccionario, definición, traducciónspanjoll, испански език, испански, spanisch, ספר"ית, ספר"י, spanyol, spagnolo, espanhol, испанский, španski, španski jezik, español, іспанський, іспанська мова

Ukranian

словник, довідник, чіткість, тлумачення, виразність, визначення, дефініція, ясність, чітка чутність, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщення

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationanglezët, anglez, gjuhë zngleze, anglishte, anglisht, английски език, английски, англичаните, englisch, א 'לית, angol, inglese, inglês, английский, engleski, englez, engleski jezik, inglés, англійський, англійці, англійська мова
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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