outré

See also: outre

English

WOTD – 19 August 2011

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] French outré, form of outrer (“to go to excess”); see also outre (“beyond”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /uˈtɹeɪ/

Adjective

outré (comparative more outré, superlative most outré)

1. 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!

2. 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.

Synonyms

• (unconventional): bizarre, eccentric, outlandish

Translations

very unconventional

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 偏离常规的, 荒诞的

• Dutch: extravagant (nl), excentriek (nl)
• Finnish: omintakeinen (fi), omituinen (fi), poikkeuksellinen (fi), outo (fi), äärimmäinen (fi)
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• German: extravagant (de), exzentrisch (de)
• Russian: стра́нный (ru) (stránnyj), необы́чный (ru) (neobýčnyj), эксцентричный (ru) (ekscentričnyj), шокирующий (ru) (šokirujuščij)
• Spanish: extravagante (es)

Anagrams

• Toure, outer, rouet, route, utero-

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /u.tʁe/

Adjective

outré (feminine outrée, masculine plural outrés, feminine plural outrées)

1. excessive
2. outrageous

Verb

outré (feminine outrée, masculine plural outrés, feminine plural outrées)

1. past participle of outrer

Further reading

• “outré”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• route, routé, troue, troué