Added 9 October 2026
outlandish
/ˌaʊtˈlændɪʃ/ adjective
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- Of or from a foreign country; not indigenous or native; alien, foreign.
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Appearing to be foreign; strange, unfamiliar. Greatly different from common experience; bizarre, outrageous, strange. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
The rock star wore black with outlandish pink and green spiked hair.
- Appearing to be foreign; strange, unfamiliar.
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Origin
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.
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