outrageousadj.adv.

Brit.

/(ˌ)aʊtˈreɪdʒəs/, U.S.

/aʊtˈreɪdʒəs/

Forms: Middle English oultragious, Middle English oultragiouse, Middle English oultragyous, Middle English oultragyouz, Middle English oute gragious (transmission error), Middle English outeragious, Middle English outetrageous (transmission error), Middle English outetragiouse (transmission error), Middle English outrageou, Middle English outrageouse, Middle English outrages, Middle English outrageus, Middle English outragez, Middle English outragiose, Middle English outragous, Middle English outragyos, Middle English outraius, Middle English owtrageouse, Middle English owtragiouse, Middle English owtreages, Middle English owttrageouse, Middle English utrageous, Middle English vtragiuse, Middle English–1500s outerageous, Middle English–1500s outragiouse, Middle English–1500s outragyous, Middle English–1500s owtrageows, Middle English–1700s outragious, Middle English– outrageous, 1500s oultrageous, 1500s outradious (transmission error), 1500s outragyoust, 1500s outtragius, 1500s owtrageus, 1500s owtragious; Scottish pre-1700 oultrageous, pre-1700 oultrageus, pre-1700 outrageouse, pre-1700 outrageouss, pre-1700 outrageousse, pre-1700 outrageus, pre-1700 outragiouse, pre-1700 outragius, pre-1700 outragous, pre-1700 outraigous, pre-1700 outtrageous, pre-1700 outtrageouse, pre-1700 outtrageouss, pre-1700 outtrageousse, pre-1700 outtragious, pre-1700 outtragius, pre-1700 owtrageous, pre-1700 owtrageows, pre-1700 owtrageus, pre-1700 owtragews, pre-1700 owtragyus, pre-1700 owttragews, pre-1700 owttragious, pre-1700 utragious, pre-1700 utragius, pre-1700 uttragius, pre-1700 vtragius, pre-1700 wtrageous, pre-1700 wtrageouse, pre-1700 1700s outragious, pre-1700 1700s– outrageous. N.E.D. (1904) also records forms of the ending Middle English -uous, 1500s -iowse.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French outrageus.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Middle French outrageus (c1165–70 in Old French, also c1165 as outrajos , and in Anglo-Norman also as utrajus , outrajus ), Middle French oultrageux (1344; French outrageux ) < outrage outrage n. + -eux -ous suffix. Compare Italian oltraggioso (1280–1310, < French), Catalan ultrajós (1460), Spanish ultrajoso (1438). Compare slightly earlier outrageously adv., and also outraious adj.

A. adj.

1. Of an action or its result: excessively injurious or cruel; of the nature of a gross violation of justice, morality, decency, etc.; wicked, evil; grossly offensive or hurtful. In later weakened use chiefly: provoking feelings of anger, affront, or indignation.

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the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > heinousness > [adjective]

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a1325 Statutes of Realm (2011) v. 16 Of hoem þat habbez inomen outraius tol, aȝen þe commune vsage of þe reaume.

c1390 G. Chaucer Parson's Tale 470 A man to pride hym in the goodes of grace is eek an outrageous folye for thilke yiftes..that sholde haue turned hym to goodnesse..turneth hym to venym.

1432 Rolls of Parl. IV. 403/2 The Auditours of ye seide Duchee han put..apon the saide Decennes..grete fynes..and committen hem to prison..with outerageous and grevous distresses.

c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 270 And he perseuere jn his outrageous langage.

1502 tr. Ordynarye of Crysten Men (de Worde) ii. v. sig. k.i Whiche thynge is outragyous & presumpcyon detestable ayenst god.

1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cclxxiiij^v Which autragious crueltie, I doubt not but God wyll ones auenge.

1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie ii. 65 If a man that hath no need doe rob or fleece his Neighbour of his goodes: therein appeareth so much the lewder and outragiouser naughtinesse.

1602 A. Munday tr. C. Estienne Paradoxes against Common Opinion 30 Seneca died a violent and outragious death.

1642 in Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion (1702) I. v. 389 To..punish those horrible, outragious cruelties, which had been committed in the murthering, and spoiling so many of his Subjects.

1679 Processes Kirkcudbright Sheriff Court No. 293 By most unhansome and outraigous speiches.

1759 S. Fielding Hist. Countess of Dellwyn II. iv. ii. 152 Whilst Lady Dellwyn was labouring under the most melancholy Dejection, she received the following outrageous Epistle.

1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin II. xxxv. 215 The outrageous treatment of poor Tom had roused her still more.

1888 A. K. Green Behind Closed Doors ii. 17 Whether I am to be made the victim of an outrageous scandal that will affect my whole future career.

1914 E. R. Burroughs Tarzan of Apes xvi. 206 I shall most certainly report this outrageous breach of ethics to the directors.

1963 M. A. De W. Howe Justice O. W. Holmes I. iv. 168 The outrageous sight of a..civilian blandly surveying the battlefield while bullets smashed into the Fort.

1998 K. Sampson Extra Time 68 It looks an outrageous decision from our end of the ground, but when we see it again on TV it's pretty cut and dried.

a. Excessive or unrestrained in action; violent, furious; †excessively bold or fierce (obsolete). Now rare.

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the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > fierceness > [adjective] > very or extremely

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the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > excessive amount or degree > [adverb] > excessively or immoderately

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c1390 G. Chaucer Parson's Tale 485 In his outrageous anger and Ire.

c1440 (a1400) Awntyrs Arthure (Thornton) 421 (MED) Thou hase wonnen thaym one werre with owttrageouse [v.r. a wrange] wille.

1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope i. xvi There was a lyon whiche in his yougthe was fyers and moche outragyous.

1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cxxxvii. 165 He came with a thre thousande of the moost outragyoust people in all that countrey.

1575 in D. Laing Reg. Domus de Soltre (1861) 229 Gif ony of the beidmen be..outtragius to thair said maister hospitale.

1609 S. Rowlands Whole Crew Kind Gossips 30 Sometimes her out-ragious madding fits, Makes me as mad as she, beside my wits.

1658 J. Jones tr. Ovid Invective against Ibis 117 So is revenge furiously out-ragious and outragiously furious.

1706 A. Bedford Evil & Danger of Stage Plays vii. 141 Such Sights, Bloodshed and Cruelty, being shewn on the Stage, do by degrees occasion the Spectators to be fierce and outragious; and Men, if I may so speak, do there learn to be inhuman.

1751 Earl of Orrery Remarks Swift (1752) 169 From an outrageous lunatic, he sunk afterwards into a quiet, speechless idiot.

1768 J. Robertson Jrnl. 23 July in D. M. Henderson & J. H. Dickson Naturalist in Highlands (1994) iii. 88 Several of these Islanders..informed me that about Michaelmass which is the Rutting time of the Deer, that the Hart becomes wild and outrageous.

1806 H. Siddons Maid, Wife, & Widow I. 198 The old man was outrageous: Frederick acted with more policy.

1845 J. Train Hist. & Statist. Acct. Isle of Man I. x. 285 Under the criminal cell is another for outrageous prisoners, who are let down into it by means of ropes.

1883 P. M'Neill Tranent xi. 135 Blood seemed to call for blood, and more outrageous they became.

1913 J. Muir Story of my Boyhood iv. 158 Keeping his eye on the outrageous bird, he [sc. a cat] tenderly touched and washed the sore spot.

1995 E. Dench From Barbarians to New Men 159 The outrageous emperor had Marsic priests collect the snakes, which he then unleashed onto crowds gathered before the games.

b. Exceeding the limits of conventional behaviour; sensational, somewhat shocking; daring, provocative, shameless.

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the world > action or operation > behaviour > a standard of conduct > [adjective] > not conforming to standard behaviour

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1778–88 F. Burney Evelina III. vii. 82 If Lady Louisa can pardon you,..for you have committed an outrageous solecism in good manners.

1847 E. Bennett Bandits of Osage I. v. 30 Look ye here, old rough-head! I believe you're a most outrageous, old villainous cut-throat!

1862 W. D. Howells Let. 13 June in Sel. Lett. (1981) IV. 117 He was..the most outrageous old pork I ever saw.

1901 L. Woolf Let. 20 Mar. (1990) 13 Do you often feel like that—as if you want to break through this hen-coop of an existence & do something inordinantly outrageous.

1932 W. Lewis Filibusters in Barbary i. x. 55 Their nonchalant devotions have often been described: there they all sit or lounge about apparently, some of them nasally humming a little... For such past-master[s] in religion it is almost like an outrageous swank.

1986 P. Barker Century's Daughter i. 1 No point in being eighty, is there? If you can't be a bit outrageous?

3. Exceeding established or reasonable limits; egregious, flagrant; immoderate, extravagant; enormous. Also: wildly exaggerated or improbable; extraordinary. In later use coloured by sense A. 2b.

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the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > excessive amount or degree > [adjective] > excessive or too great in amount or degree

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c1390 G. Chaucer Pardoner's Tale 650 Vengeance shal nat parten from his hous That of his othes is to outrageous.

a1400 (c1300) Northern Homily: Archbishop & Nun (Coll. Phys.) in Middle Eng. Dict. at Outrageous His frendes..gert him wel eet and drinc And lef his utrageous swinc.

a1425 (a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) 9440 (MED) Þai sal fele..Outrageus hete and outrageouse calde.

1484 W. Caxton tr. Ordre of Chyualry (1926) vii. 97 By ouer oultragyous drynkynge and etynge.

?1504 W. Atkinson tr. Thomas à Kempis Ful Treat. Imytacyon Cryste (Pynson) i. xxi. 170 Remembre the outragious peynes of hell & pourgatory.

c1550 R. Bieston Bayte Fortune B ij b By arrogance oultrageous thy tounge on vanting swerueth.

1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie ii. xi. 46 b We found the streame..so violent and outragious.

1641 Marianus xv. 133 He grew so melancholy, as nothing..might any way delight him, so that in outragious manner, he exclaimed on his misfortune.

1696 W. Whiston New Theory of Earth iv. 302 [It] would..afterward descend in violent and outragious Rains.

1764 J. Otis Rights Brit. Colonies 55 If some bounds are not set to the jurisdiction of the admiralty,..it may in time,..grow outrageous, and overflow the banks of all the other courts of justice.

1834–5 W. A. Caruthers Cavaliers of Virginia I. vii. 83 O'Reily was gifted with a strong tendency to the most outrageous and even ridiculous exaggeration.

1869 R. Browning Ring & Bk. IV. xii. 199 Yesterday he had to keep in-doors Because of the outrageous rain that fell.

1871 W. Black Daughter of Heth III. x. 151 There was a great deal of blushing, and of confused thanks, and of outrageous merriment over the embarrassment of the others.

1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage xxvi. 109 Some fellow in an outrageous collar was asking him questions in logic.

1956 J. Baldwin Giovanni's Room ii. i. 110 The spectacle we presented, two grown men jostling each other on the wide sidewalk and aiming the cherry pits, as though they were spitballs, into each other's faces, must have been outrageous.

1990 Gourmet Nov. 54/1 Restaurant proprietors don't even smile when presenting their hilariously outrageous checks.

†B. adv.

Extremely, excessively. Obsolete.

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1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) ix. 483 He wes outrageous hardy.

a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Hii To day hote, to morowe outragyous colde.

1579 (c1501) G. Douglas Palice of Honour (Edinb.) 1544 in Shorter Poems (1967) 99 He was to thame sa outrageous [?1553 London outragius] ingrait.

c1678 in Roxburghe Ballads (1891) VII. 430 My Golden hair I rent and tear like one outragious mad.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	outrageous
释义	outrageousadj.adv. Brit. /(ˌ)aʊtˈreɪdʒəs/, U.S. /aʊtˈreɪdʒəs/ Forms: Middle English oultragious, Middle English oultragiouse, Middle English oultragyous, Middle English oultragyouz, Middle English oute gragious (transmission error), Middle English outeragious, Middle English outetrageous (transmission error), Middle English outetragiouse (transmission error), Middle English outrageou, Middle English outrageouse, Middle English outrages, Middle English outrageus, Middle English outragez, Middle English outragiose, Middle English outragous, Middle English outragyos, Middle English outraius, Middle English owtrageouse, Middle English owtragiouse, Middle English owtreages, Middle English owttrageouse, Middle English utrageous, Middle English vtragiuse, Middle English–1500s outerageous, Middle English–1500s outragiouse, Middle English–1500s outragyous, Middle English–1500s owtrageows, Middle English–1700s outragious, Middle English– outrageous, 1500s oultrageous, 1500s outradious (transmission error), 1500s outragyoust, 1500s outtragius, 1500s owtrageus, 1500s owtragious; Scottish pre-1700 oultrageous, pre-1700 oultrageus, pre-1700 outrageouse, pre-1700 outrageouss, pre-1700 outrageousse, pre-1700 outrageus, pre-1700 outragiouse, pre-1700 outragius, pre-1700 outragous, pre-1700 outraigous, pre-1700 outtrageous, pre-1700 outtrageouse, pre-1700 outtrageouss, pre-1700 outtrageousse, pre-1700 outtragious, pre-1700 outtragius, pre-1700 owtrageous, pre-1700 owtrageows, pre-1700 owtrageus, pre-1700 owtragews, pre-1700 owtragyus, pre-1700 owttragews, pre-1700 owttragious, pre-1700 utragious, pre-1700 utragius, pre-1700 uttragius, pre-1700 vtragius, pre-1700 wtrageous, pre-1700 wtrageouse, pre-1700 1700s outragious, pre-1700 1700s– outrageous. N.E.D. (1904) also records forms of the ending Middle English -uous, 1500s -iowse. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French outrageus. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Middle French outrageus (c1165–70 in Old French, also c1165 as outrajos , and in Anglo-Norman also as utrajus , outrajus ), Middle French oultrageux (1344; French outrageux ) < outrage outrage n. + -eux -ous suffix. Compare Italian oltraggioso (1280–1310, < French), Catalan ultrajós (1460), Spanish ultrajoso (1438). Compare slightly earlier outrageously adv., and also outraious adj. A. adj. 1. Of an action or its result: excessively injurious or cruel; of the nature of a gross violation of justice, morality, decency, etc.; wicked, evil; grossly offensive or hurtful. In later weakened use chiefly: provoking feelings of anger, affront, or indignation. 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Chaucer Parson's Tale 470 A man to pride hym in the goodes of grace is eek an outrageous folye for thilke yiftes..that sholde haue turned hym to goodnesse..turneth hym to venym. 1432 Rolls of Parl. IV. 403/2 The Auditours of ye seide Duchee han put..apon the saide Decennes..grete fynes..and committen hem to prison..with outerageous and grevous distresses. c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 270 And he perseuere jn his outrageous langage. 1502 tr. Ordynarye of Crysten Men (de Worde) ii. v. sig. k.i Whiche thynge is outragyous & presumpcyon detestable ayenst god. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cclxxiiij^v Which autragious crueltie, I doubt not but God wyll ones auenge. 1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie ii. 65 If a man that hath no need doe rob or fleece his Neighbour of his goodes: therein appeareth so much the lewder and outragiouser naughtinesse. 1602 A. Munday tr. C. Estienne Paradoxes against Common Opinion 30 Seneca died a violent and outragious death. 1642 in Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion (1702) I. v. 389 To..punish those horrible, outragious cruelties, which had been committed in the murthering, and spoiling so many of his Subjects. 1679 Processes Kirkcudbright Sheriff Court No. 293 By most unhansome and outraigous speiches. 1759 S. Fielding Hist. Countess of Dellwyn II. iv. ii. 152 Whilst Lady Dellwyn was labouring under the most melancholy Dejection, she received the following outrageous Epistle. 1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin II. xxxv. 215 The outrageous treatment of poor Tom had roused her still more. 1888 A. K. Green Behind Closed Doors ii. 17 Whether I am to be made the victim of an outrageous scandal that will affect my whole future career. 1914 E. R. Burroughs Tarzan of Apes xvi. 206 I shall most certainly report this outrageous breach of ethics to the directors. 1963 M. A. De W. Howe Justice O. W. Holmes I. iv. 168 The outrageous sight of a..civilian blandly surveying the battlefield while bullets smashed into the Fort. 1998 K. Sampson Extra Time 68 It looks an outrageous decision from our end of the ground, but when we see it again on TV it's pretty cut and dried. 2. a. Excessive or unrestrained in action; violent, furious; †excessively bold or fierce (obsolete). Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > violent action or operation > [adjective] retheeOE hotOE strongOE woodlyc1000 un-i-rideOE stoura1122 brathc1175 unridec1175 unrudec1225 starklyc1275 toughc1275 wood1297 ragec1330 unrekena1350 biga1375 furialc1386 outrageousc1390 savagea1393 violenta1393 bremelya1400 snarta1400 wrothlya1400 fightingc1400 runishc1400 dour?a1425 derfc1440 churlousa1450 roida1450 fervent1465 churlish1477 orgulous1483 felona1500 brathfula1522 brathlya1525 fanatic1533 furious1535 boisterous1544 blusterous1548 ungentle1551 sore1563 full-mouthed1594 savage wild1595 Herculean1602 shrill1608 robustious1612 efferous1614 thundering1618 churly1620 ferocient1655 turbulent1656 efferate1684 knock-me-down1760 haggard-wild1786 ensanguined1806 rammish1807 fulminatory1820 riproarious1830 natural1832 survigrous1835 sabre-toothed1849 cataclysmal1861 thunderous1874 fierce1912 cataractal1926 the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > [adjective] outragea1325 violentc1384 boistousa1387 outrageousc1390 outraiousc1390 harageous?a1400 hetera1400 methelessc1400 ruffian1528 termagant1546 sore1565 ruffianly1570 boisterous1581 violousa1626 tory-rory1678 plug-ugly1857 radge1857 amok1868 tough1884 roughhouse1896 butch1939 shit-kicking1953 hard-ass1967 tasty1974 the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > fierceness > [adjective] > very or extremely outrageousc1390 outraious1523 effere1587 the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > excessive amount or degree > [adverb] > excessively or immoderately too971 unimeteOE unmethelyOE overmetec1225 un-i-methc1225 unmeetly?c1225 unmethc1225 overgarta1333 outrageouslya1387 outrageousc1390 unreasonablyc1400 outragelya1425 unmoderately?a1425 inordinatelyc1450 unrulilyc1456 dismeasurably1474 immoderately1482 overharda1500 unreasonable1535 furiously1555 intemperately1576 overliberally1578 unconscionably1583 unconscionable1596 exorbitantlya1635 undulya1779 owdaciously1848 c1390 G. Chaucer Parson's Tale 485 In his outrageous anger and Ire. c1440 (a1400) Awntyrs Arthure (Thornton) 421 (MED) Thou hase wonnen thaym one werre with owttrageouse [v.r. a wrange] wille. 1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope i. xvi There was a lyon whiche in his yougthe was fyers and moche outragyous. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cxxxvii. 165 He came with a thre thousande of the moost outragyoust people in all that countrey. 1575 in D. Laing Reg. Domus de Soltre (1861) 229 Gif ony of the beidmen be..outtragius to thair said maister hospitale. 1609 S. Rowlands Whole Crew Kind Gossips 30 Sometimes her out-ragious madding fits, Makes me as mad as she, beside my wits. 1658 J. Jones tr. Ovid Invective against Ibis 117 So is revenge furiously out-ragious and outragiously furious. 1706 A. Bedford Evil & Danger of Stage Plays vii. 141 Such Sights, Bloodshed and Cruelty, being shewn on the Stage, do by degrees occasion the Spectators to be fierce and outragious; and Men, if I may so speak, do there learn to be inhuman. 1751 Earl of Orrery Remarks Swift (1752) 169 From an outrageous lunatic, he sunk afterwards into a quiet, speechless idiot. 1768 J. Robertson Jrnl. 23 July in D. M. Henderson & J. H. Dickson Naturalist in Highlands (1994) iii. 88 Several of these Islanders..informed me that about Michaelmass which is the Rutting time of the Deer, that the Hart becomes wild and outrageous. 1806 H. Siddons Maid, Wife, & Widow I. 198 The old man was outrageous: Frederick acted with more policy. 1845 J. Train Hist. & Statist. Acct. Isle of Man I. x. 285 Under the criminal cell is another for outrageous prisoners, who are let down into it by means of ropes. 1883 P. M'Neill Tranent xi. 135 Blood seemed to call for blood, and more outrageous they became. 1913 J. Muir Story of my Boyhood iv. 158 Keeping his eye on the outrageous bird, he [sc. a cat] tenderly touched and washed the sore spot. 1995 E. Dench From Barbarians to New Men 159 The outrageous emperor had Marsic priests collect the snakes, which he then unleashed onto crowds gathered before the games. b. Exceeding the limits of conventional behaviour; sensational, somewhat shocking; daring, provocative, shameless. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > a standard of conduct > [adjective] > not conforming to standard behaviour irregular1395 unformalc1449 informalc1475 disordered1561 monstrous1568 odd1577 irregulate1579 exorbitant1613 free-spirited1613 exorbitating1632 inconformable1633 extravagant1650 inconform1659 eccentric1685 unconformable1702 outrageous1778 unconventional1840 erratic1841 kinky1844 Bohemian1846 radical1869 Bohemic1874 nonconforming1899 hard case1904 jazz1917 offbeat1922 deviant1935 deviate1945 oddball1945 left field1951 way out1955 boho1958 non-conformant1960 sideways1969 1778–88 F. Burney Evelina III. vii. 82 If Lady Louisa can pardon you,..for you have committed an outrageous solecism in good manners. 1847 E. Bennett Bandits of Osage I. v. 30 Look ye here, old rough-head! I believe you're a most outrageous, old villainous cut-throat! 1862 W. D. Howells Let. 13 June in Sel. Lett. (1981) IV. 117 He was..the most outrageous old pork I ever saw. 1901 L. Woolf Let. 20 Mar. (1990) 13 Do you often feel like that—as if you want to break through this hen-coop of an existence & do something inordinantly outrageous. 1932 W. Lewis Filibusters in Barbary i. x. 55 Their nonchalant devotions have often been described: there they all sit or lounge about apparently, some of them nasally humming a little... For such past-master[s] in religion it is almost like an outrageous swank. 1986 P. Barker Century's Daughter i. 1 No point in being eighty, is there? If you can't be a bit outrageous? 3. Exceeding established or reasonable limits; egregious, flagrant; immoderate, extravagant; enormous. Also: wildly exaggerated or improbable; extraordinary. In later use coloured by sense A. 2b. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > excessive amount or degree > [adjective] > excessive or too great in amount or degree overmeteeOE unmeeteOE unimeteOE unmethelyOE over-mickleOE hoflesc1175 overmucha1300 unskilwisea1340 unskilfulc1370 luxuriousc1374 overseemingc1384 superfluec1384 unreasonablea1387 outrageousc1390 over-greatc1390 overlargec1390 overgrowna1398 unmeasurablea1398 unmoderatea1398 unordinatea1398 immoderate1398 rankc1400 overabundantc1410 excessivea1420 superabundant?a1425 unmeasureda1425 superfluousc1475 nimious?c1500 surfeitc1500 overliberala1535 torc1540 exceeding1548 distemperate1557 over-ranka1568 overswelling1582 accessive1583 overaboundinga1600 overteeming1603 excessful1633 overproportionated1647 superproportioned1652 over-proportioned1662 overproportionate1672 unduea1684 unequal1704 unmerciful1707 hypermetric1854 hypertrophied1879 over the top1980 c1390 G. Chaucer Pardoner's Tale 650 Vengeance shal nat parten from his hous That of his othes is to outrageous. a1400 (c1300) Northern Homily: Archbishop & Nun (Coll. Phys.) in Middle Eng. Dict. at Outrageous His frendes..gert him wel eet and drinc And lef his utrageous swinc. a1425 (a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) 9440 (MED) Þai sal fele..Outrageus hete and outrageouse calde. 1484 W. Caxton tr. Ordre of Chyualry (1926) vii. 97 By ouer oultragyous drynkynge and etynge. ?1504 W. Atkinson tr. Thomas à Kempis Ful Treat. Imytacyon Cryste (Pynson) i. xxi. 170 Remembre the outragious peynes of hell & pourgatory. c1550 R. Bieston Bayte Fortune B ij b By arrogance oultrageous thy tounge on vanting swerueth. 1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie ii. xi. 46 b We found the streame..so violent and outragious. 1641 Marianus xv. 133 He grew so melancholy, as nothing..might any way delight him, so that in outragious manner, he exclaimed on his misfortune. 1696 W. Whiston New Theory of Earth iv. 302 [It] would..afterward descend in violent and outragious Rains. 1764 J. Otis Rights Brit. Colonies 55 If some bounds are not set to the jurisdiction of the admiralty,..it may in time,..grow outrageous, and overflow the banks of all the other courts of justice. 1834–5 W. A. Caruthers Cavaliers of Virginia I. vii. 83 O'Reily was gifted with a strong tendency to the most outrageous and even ridiculous exaggeration. 1869 R. Browning Ring & Bk. IV. xii. 199 Yesterday he had to keep in-doors Because of the outrageous rain that fell. 1871 W. Black Daughter of Heth III. x. 151 There was a great deal of blushing, and of confused thanks, and of outrageous merriment over the embarrassment of the others. 1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage xxvi. 109 Some fellow in an outrageous collar was asking him questions in logic. 1956 J. Baldwin Giovanni's Room ii. i. 110 The spectacle we presented, two grown men jostling each other on the wide sidewalk and aiming the cherry pits, as though they were spitballs, into each other's faces, must have been outrageous. 1990 Gourmet Nov. 54/1 Restaurant proprietors don't even smile when presenting their hilariously outrageous checks. †B. adv. Extremely, excessively. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > extremely or exceedingly swithlyc888 micklelyeOE swith971 hardOE un-i-fohOE sevenfoldlOE unmeet?c1225 innerlyc1330 horribly1340 too1340 sore1474 horriblec1475 vehemently1483 outrageous1487 done?a1513 exquisite1529 strangely1532 exceeding1535 exceedingly1535 angardlyc1540 angerlyc1540 choicec1540 vengeable1542 vengeably?1550 extremelya1554 monstrous1569 thrice1579 amain1587 extremea1591 damnably1598 fellc1600 tyrannically1602 exquisitely1603 damnedly1607 preciously1607 damnablea1616 impensively1620 excellingly1621 main1632 fearful1634 vengeancelya1640 upsy1650 impensely1657 twadding1657 vastly1664 hideous1667 mainly1670 consumed1707 consumedly1707 outrageously1749 damned1757 nation1771 shockingly1777 deuced1779 darn1789 darned1807 felly1807 varsal1814 awful1816 awfy1816 frightfully1816 deucedly1819 dogged1819 awfully1820 gallowsa1823 shocking1831 tremendously1832 everlasting1833 terribly1833 fearfully1835 ripping1838 poison1840 thundering1853 frighteninglyc1854 raring1854 hell's own1863 goldarned1866 goddamned1870 doggone1871 acutely1872 whooping1874 stupidly1878 everlastingly1879 hideously1882 densely1883 storming1883 good and1885 thunderingly1885 crazy1887 tremendous1887 madly1888 goldarn1892 howling1895 murderously1916 rasted1919 goddam1921 bitchingly1923 Christly1923 bitching1929 falling-down1930 lousy1932 appallingly1937 stratospherically1941 Christ almighty1945 effing1945 focking1956 dagnab1961 drop-dead1980 hella1987 totes2006 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) ix. 483 He wes outrageous hardy. a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Hii To day hote, to morowe outragyous colde. 1579 (c1501) G. Douglas Palice of Honour (Edinb.) 1544 in Shorter Poems (1967) 99 He was to thame sa outrageous [?1553 London outragius] ingrait. c1678 in Roxburghe Ballads (1891) VII. 430 My Golden hair I rent and tear like one outragious mad. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.adv.a1325
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