outlandish

outlandish
/owt lan"dish/, adj.
1. freakishly or grotesquely strange or odd, as appearance, dress, objects, ideas, or practices; bizarre: outlandish clothes; outlandish questions.
2. having a foreign appearance.
3. remote from civilized areas; out-of the-way: an outlandish settlement.
4. Archaic. foreign; alien.
[bef. 1000; ME; OE utlendisc. See OUTLAND, -ISH1]
Syn. 1. peculiar, queer, eccentric, curious. 3. backwoods, isolated.

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