outré
See also: outre
English
Etymology
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] French outré, form of outrer (“to go to excess”); see also outre (“beyond”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
outré (comparative more outré, superlative most outré)
- Beyond what is customary or proper; extravagant.
- 1815, Jane Austen, Emma, volume II, chapter 8:
- I believe I have been very rude; but really Miss Fairfax has done her hair in so odd a way—so very odd a way—that I cannot keep my eyes from her. I never saw any thing so outrée!—Those curls!—This must be a fancy of her own. I see nobody else looking like her!
- Very unconventional.
- 1992, David Littlejohn, The Ultimate Art: Essays Around and About Opera, Chapter 16: The Twentieth Century Takes on Shakespeare, page 261,
- To begin with, King Lear is the most unconventional, the most nearly hysterical, the most outré and outrageous play Shakespeare ever wrote.
- 1992, David Littlejohn, The Ultimate Art: Essays Around and About Opera, Chapter 16: The Twentieth Century Takes on Shakespeare, page 261,
Synonyms
- (unconventional): bizarre, eccentric, outlandish
Translations
very unconventional
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French
Pronunciation
Adjective
outré (feminine outrée, masculine plural outrés, feminine plural outrées)
Verb
outré (feminine outrée, masculine plural outrés, feminine plural outrées)
- past participle of outrer
Further reading
- “outré”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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