Outrageous
[aʊt'reɪdʒəs] or [aʊt'redʒəs]
Definition
(n.) Of the nature of an outrage; exceeding the limits of right, reason, or decency; involving or doing an outrage; furious; violent; atrocious.
Edited by Edith
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Furious, violent, raging, wild, mad, frantic, infuriate, frenzied.[2]. Atrocious, heinous, villanous.[3]. Excessive, exorbitant, enormous, extravagant.
Editor: Vince
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Excessive, unwarrantable, unjustifiable, wanton, flagrant, nefarious,atrocious, violent
ANT:Moderate, justifiable, reasonable
Editor: Nicolas
Examples
- Of course he will,' said Mr. Jingle pausing--'outrageous. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- It is a most outrageous state of things. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I was only angry, my dear--I may say outrageous--with the _Independent_ people for daring to insert it; that's all. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- I shall most certainly report this outrageous breach of ethics to the directors of the adjacent zoological garden. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- And Herbert had seen him as a predatory Tartar of comic propensities, with a face like a red brick, and an outrageous hat all over bells. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- It is perfectly outrageous,--it is horrid, Augustine! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Martin, my lad, thou'rt a swaggering whelp now; thou wilt some day be an outrageous puppy. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He was affected by his mistress's deplorable situation, and succeeded in preventing an outrageous denial of the epithet drunken on the footman's part. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- A more outrageous person I never did see. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- This really grows outrageous, Mr. Blessington, cried Dr. Trevelyan. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
Editor: Nicolas