outlandish

Pronunciation: /ˌaʊtˈlændɪʃ/

The English word “outlandish” has 5 meanings listed here.

adjective

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

noun

A foreign language.

Etymology

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…

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