outré
See also: outre
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Etymology edit
French outré, form of outrer (“to go to excess”); see also outre (“beyond”).
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Adjective edit
outré (comparative more outré, superlative most outré)
- Beyond what is customary or proper; extravagant.
- 1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter VIII, in Emma: […], volume II, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC, page 152:
- 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!
- 1903, Samuel Butler, chapter 50, in The Way of All Flesh:
- He hated people who did not know where to stop. Ernest was always so outré and strange; there was never any knowing what he would do next, except that it would be something unusual and silly.
- 2021 July 17, Jacob Bernstein, “Keith McNally Stirs the Pot”, in The New York Times[1]:
- Are his patrons simply too giddy in this post-pandemic moment to muster sustained outrage over his outré behavior?
- 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.
- 1992, David Littlejohn, The Ultimate Art: Essays Around and About Opera, Chapter 16: The Twentieth Century Takes on Shakespeare, page 261,
Synonyms edit
- (unconventional): bizarre, eccentric, outlandish
Translations edit
very unconventional
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Adjective edit
outré (feminine outrée, masculine plural outrés, feminine plural outrées)
- excessive
- outrageous
- Who is revolted with anger.
Participle edit
outré (feminine outrée, masculine plural outrés, feminine plural outrées)
- past participle of outrer
Further reading edit
- “outré”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.