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outlandish

Meaning

Conspicuously departing from the ordinary, conventional, or expected.

Examples by difficulty

Basic: Simple, everyday vocabulary — the easiest to read.

Her plan to cross the ocean in a bathtub seemed outlandish. No one believed it would work, but she was determined. It was so far from what anyone would ever think of doing, completely beyond what was normal.

The mayor, wearing a hat made of dried squid, gave a speech about the town's new zoning laws. It was an outlandish choice for official attire, and the crowd's stunned silence showed how much it departed from the expected.

The toddler's sudden demand for a pet giraffe, complete with a tiny saddle and a helmet, was truly outlandish. His parents stared, utterly bewildered by this request that so conspicuously departed from the ordinary.

Sarah wore a hat so tall and bright, it seemed to defy gravity. It had fake flowers and tiny disco balls. Everyone stared. Her choice was so outlandish, it made us all feel a little shy, completely departing from what we'd expect to see.

Barnaby wore a hat that was a giant, fuzzy pickle. He thought it was normal, but everyone stared. His bright pink socks with glittery green shoes were also quite a sight. His taste in fashion was so wildly different from everyone else's, it was truly outlandish.

Normal: Standard, everyday language.

He arrived at the party wearing a bright purple suit with gold polka dots, an outfit so outlandish that everyone stared, expecting something far more normal. His grin, however, showed he couldn't care less about their surprised reactions.

She wore a neon pink suit with a matching feathered hat, an outlandish choice for the somber funeral. Everyone stared, their hushed whispers and uncomfortable glances a clear reaction to her conspicuous departure from the ordinary, expected somber attire.

The inventor unveiled his latest creation: a self-folding laundry bot powered by static electricity and flavored with essence of pickle. The room fell silent, all eyes on the bizarre contraption. Its completely outlandish design, so unlike anything anyone had imagined, left them speechless.

The artisan meticulously hammered the impossibly thin gold leaf onto the miniature, fully functional harpsichord designed for a garden gnome. Her neighbors, accustomed to her quiet, sensible pottery, found this new project utterly outlandish. They shook their heads, unable to comprehend the sheer, unexpected extravagance.

The old fisherman stared at the sky, not at the clouds, but at the shimmering, outlandish aurora that pulsed with impossible colors over the desert. He’d seen many strange things on his travels, but this light, so far from any ocean, felt profoundly, unsettlingly wrong.

Advanced: Richer vocabulary that stretches an upper-level reader.

Sarah's decision to wear a full medieval suit of armor to the job interview was so outlandish. Everyone expected a sharp suit, but her choice conspicuously departed from the ordinary, leaving the hiring committee utterly bewildered by the unexpected display.

The alchemist stared at the bubbling flask, a mixture of dried squid ink and crystallized moonlight. His colleagues scoffed at his methods, calling his experiments utterly outlandish, but he knew these peculiar ingredients were the only hope for curing the city's mysterious luminescence.

The inventor unveiled his latest creation: a bicycle with square wheels and a propeller. The crowd murmured, not in awe, but in bewildered silence, as the contraption wobbled precariously. His utterly outlandish design, a conspicuous departure from the expected, elicited more confused stares than applause.

Her bright pink hair, a shockingly vibrant hue, seemed entirely outlandish against the somber funeral attire. Everyone else wore black, a conventional display of grief, but she arrived looking like a pop star. It was so unexpected, so unlike anything anyone would have imagined.

Harold's decision to wear a full knight's armor to the company picnic was rather outlandish. His shining helm clashed mightily with the checkered tablecloth, and his clanking gauntlets proved inconvenient for scooping potato salad, a conspicuous departure from the ordinary picnic attire that had everyone chuckling.

Challenging: Rare, high-register vocabulary for serious word lovers.

His audacious proposal, suggesting we fund the entire project with lottery winnings, was so utterly outlandish that the board members exchanged bewildered glances. The sheer improbability of it all, conspicuously departing from any sensible financial strategy, rendered the idea preposterous and unfeasible.

Professor Quibble's pronouncements on temporal displacement were generally considered fringe, but today's dissertation defense reached a new zenith of outlandishness. He, a renowned chronophysics scholar, insisted the chronometer was a sentient being demanding to be freed. The panel, accustomed to his eccentricities, exchanged perturbed glances.

The entire council scoffed at the proposal, deeming it utterly outlandish. Their meticulously constructed societal framework, predicated on meticulous resource allocation and strict emotional suppression, could scarcely comprehend such a radical suggestion. To even entertain the notion of uninhibited communal art installations felt like a betrayal of their very foundations.

The magician's finale was truly outlandish. He vanished a live elephant, a feat conspicuously departing from the ordinary, making the audience gasp and question everything they thought possible.

The inventor's new contraption, a self-buttering toast catapult, was so conspicuously departing from the ordinary that it seemed destined for the annals of truly outlandish creations, right alongside the synchronized pelican ballet and the artisanal pickle museum.

Difficulty

Advanced — Less frequent words that stretch an upper-level vocabulary.

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