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Definitions: Outre |
OutreAdjective1. 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: OutreSynonyms: bizarre (adj), eccentric (adj), flaky (adj), freakish (adj), freaky (adj), outlandish (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
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). |
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency 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. | |
| 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 possuir nível superior a, exagerado (a bit thick, exaggeratedly, exaggerative, fulsome, gaudy, overdone, scenic, scenical, stagey, stagy, steep). (various references) эксцентричный (eccentric, oddish, wacky, whimsical), преувеличенный (exaggerated, fulsome, high-colored, high-coloured, hyperbolic, hyperbolical, overdone). (various references) preteran (exaggerated, extravagant, far gone, hyperbolical, ultra). (various references) outré, extravagante (aberrant, eccentric, extravagant, flamboyant, nonsensical, odd, outlandish, strange, wanton, wild). (various references) 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) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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). | |
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. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4F 75 74 72 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--- ..- - .-. . |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001111 01110101 01110100 01110010 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)O u t r e |
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)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4987868471 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Albanian | fjalor, qartësi, përcaktim, saktësi, transmetim, transferim | shqip, 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, превод | bulgr, български, български език, българин, bulgare, bolgár, bulgaro, болгарский, болгарин, bugarski jezik, bugarski, bugarka, bugarin, búlgaro, болгарський |
German | wörterbuch, Übersetzung | gjerman, 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", "עתק | hebraishte, 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, fordítás | унгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, Ungar, "ו 'רי, magyar, ungherese, венгр, венгерский, mađarski jezik, mađarski, mađar, húngaro, угорська мова, угорський, угорка, угорець |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | италиански 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, tradução | portugez, 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, перемещение | руски език, руски, руснак, Russe, russisch, רוסי, orosz, russo, русский, ruski jezik, ruski, ruso, росіянка, росіянин, російська мова, російський |
Serbo-Croatian | leksikon, rečnik, definicija, tumačenje | serbokroatisch, servo-croata, srpsko-hrvatski jezik, srpsko-hrvatski |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | spanjoll, 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, Translation | anglezët, 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 |
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