outlandish

Meaning

1. Of or from a foreign country; not indigenous or native; alien, foreign.
2. Appearing to be foreign; strange, unfamiliar.
3. Greatly different from common experience; bizarre, outrageous, strange.
4. Of a place: far away from where most people are located; in the middle of nowhere, out of the way, remote.

outlandish

bizarre

strange

odd

foreign

eccentric

alien

freaky

unusual

queer

flaky

freakish

off-the-wall

outre

peculiar

quirky

exotic

grotesque

flakey

gonzo

curious

funny

abnormal

freak

far-fetched

difficult

European

Western

be unconventional

irrelevant

not in any book

extravagant

preposterous

fantastic

overseas

absurd

distant

remote

cadging

crotchety

eerie

quaint

quizzical

rum

oddish

singular

unordinary

weird

whimsical

fantastical

wacky

whacky

crafty

cunning

ludicrous

wily

acentric

excentric

knockabout

obstreperous

queerious

surrealistic

zany

Frequency

Hyphenated as

out‧land‧ish

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˌaʊtˈlændɪʃ/

The adjective is derived from Middle English outlandisch, outlondish (“foreign”), from Old English ūtlendisċ (“foreign; strange, outlandish”), from Proto-West Germanic *ūtlandisk, from Proto-Germanic *ūtlandiskaz, from *ūtlandą (“(adjective) alien, foreign; relating to outlying land; (noun) foreign land; outlying land”) + *-iskaz (suffix forming adjectives from nouns with the sense ‘characteristic of; pertaining to’). *Ūtlandą is derived from *ūt- (suffix meaning ‘beyond; external to, on the outside of’) (from Proto-Indo-European *úd (“away; out, outward; upwards”)) + *landą (“area of ground, land”) (from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“heath; land”)). By surface analysis, outland + -ish. The noun is derived from the adjective. cognates * Danish udenlandsk (“foreign, non-domestic”) * Dutch uitlands (dated) (now buitenlands (“foreign, non-domestic”)), Dutch uitlandig (“absent from the home country”) (now chiefly Suriname) * Faroese útlendskur (“foreign, non-domestic”) * German ausländisch (“foreign, non-domestic”) * Icelandic útlenskur (“foreign”) * Swedish utländsk (“foreign, non-domestic”)