Meaning

4 senses
  1. Violating morality or decency; provoking indignation or affront.

    grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror

  2. Transgressing reasonable limits; extravagant, immoderate.

  3. Shocking; exceeding conventional behaviour; provocative.

    ungeheuerlich, haarsträubend, schockierend

    вопию́щийvopijúščij, возмути́тельныйvozmutítelʹnyj

    обу́рливийobúrlyvyj

  4. (archaic)Fierce, violent.

Examples

38 sentences
  1. This is just outrageous.

    Це просто обурливо.

    ruЭто просто возмутительно.

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  2. I think this is pretty outrageous.

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  3. I think that this is pretty outrageous.

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  4. These prices are outrageous.

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  5. The price was outrageous.

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Translations

7 languages
Українська
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Русский
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Deutsch
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Origin

From Anglo-Norman outrageus, Middle French outrageus, from outrage; equivalent to outrage

From Anglo-Norman outrageus, Middle French outrageus, from outrage; equivalent to outrage + -ous.

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Forms

more outrageous, most outrageous
Comparativemore outrageous Lesson
Superlativemost outrageous Lesson

regular

Synonyms

9 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

4 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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