outlandish

adj.

1. Conspicuously unconventional; bizarre. See synonyms at strange.
2. Strikingly unfamiliar.
3. Located far from civilized areas.
4. Archaic. Of foreign origin; not native.

outlandishly out·land'ish·ly adv.
outlandishness out·land'ish·ness n.

"Outlandish" was the response of the White House to a Daily Mirror report that US President George Bush had planned to bomb the offices of Al-Jazeera television network in Qatar last year but was talked out of it by British PM Tony Blair:

"'We are not going to dignify something so outlandish with a response,' a White House official told CNN."

Link: U.S.: Al-Jazeera bomb story 'outlandish'

Posted November 24, 2005.

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adjective

1. Deviating from the customary: bizarre, cranky, curious, eccentric, erratic, freakish, idiosyncratic, odd, peculiar, quaint, queer, quirky, singular, strange, unnatural, unusual, weird. Slang kooky, screwball. British Slang rum, rummy². See usual/unusual.
2. Of, from, or characteristic of another place or part of the world: alien, exotic, foreign, strange. See native/foreign.

adj

Definition: bizarre, very strange
Antonyms: common, commonplace, familiar, normal, ordinary, usual

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IN BRIEF: Unfamiliar appearance or manner.

Her mother appeared at dinner in such an outlandish costume that they didn't recognize her at first.

Outlandish

Dansk (Danish)
adj. - aparte, fremmedartet, sær, fjern, eksotisk

Nederlands (Dutch)
vreemd(soortig), afgelegen, bizar

Français (French)
adj. - bizarre

Deutsch (German)
adj. - seltsam, ausgefallen

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - ξενόφερτος, παράξενος, ασυνήθιστος, εξωτικός, μιξοβάρβαρος

Italiano (Italian)
straniero, bizzarro

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - esquisito (m), bizarro (m)

Русский (Russian)
иностранный, странный, отдаленный

Español (Spanish)
adj. - extravagante, extraño, apartado, tosco

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - sällsam, besynnerlig, fantastisk, avlägsen

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
外国气派的, 古怪的, 偏僻的

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 外國氣派的, 古怪的, 偏僻的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 이국풍의, 기이한, 시골구석의

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 奇怪な, 異様な, 異国風の, へんぴな

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) غريب‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮מוזר, משונה, זר‬

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