OUTLANDISH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does outlandish mean? 

• OUTLANDISH (adjective)
  The adjective OUTLANDISH has 1 sense:

1. conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual

  Familiarity information: OUTLANDISH used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OUTLANDISH (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual

Synonyms:

bizarre; eccentric; flakey; flaky; freakish; freaky; gonzo; off-the-wall; outlandish; outre

Context example:

outre and affected stage antics

Similar:

unconventional (not conventional or conformist)

Derivation:

outlandishness (strikingly out of the ordinary)

 Context examples 

He said something about a schooner that's gettin' ready to go off to some outlandish place to look for buried treasure, that he'd sail on her if his money held out.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Thus engaged, he appeared, sitting in his own recess, quiet and absorbed enough; but that blue eye of his had a habit of leaving the outlandish- looking grammar, and wandering over, and sometimes fixing upon us, his fellow-students, with a curious intensity of observation: if caught, it would be instantly withdrawn; yet ever and anon, it returned searchingly to our table.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I had crossed a marshy tract full of willows, bulrushes, and odd, outlandish, swampy trees; and I had now come out upon the skirts of an open piece of undulating, sandy country, about a mile long, dotted with a few pines and a great number of contorted trees, not unlike the oak in growth, but pale in the foliage, like willows.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)