词汇 | outlandish |
释义 | outlandish adjective disapprovinguk /ˌaʊtˈlæn.dɪʃ/ us /ˌaʊtˈlæn.dɪʃ/ strange and unusual and difficult to accept or like: 稀奇古怪的;不寻常的;难以接受的 an outlandish hairstyle/outfit古怪的发型/装束 Synonyms bizarre eccentric(STRANGE) flaky(PERSON)informal sometimes offensive freakish Strange, suspicious and unnatural aberrant aberrantly abnormal abnormally add freakishly freakishness funnily funnily enoughidiom ghostliness perversely perversity perverted pervy presence wack wackadoodle wackily wackiness wacky Related wordsoutlandishly outlandishness outlandish | American Dictionaryoutlandish adjective us/ɑʊtˈlæn·dɪʃ/ strange and unusual: She liked to dress in outlandish clothes. Examples of outlandishoutlandish From a practical standpoint, this task is somewhat outlandish. To some, his behaviour, such as his utilisation of snow houses, appeared outlandish. Because per formances can be recontextualized, the ideological premises inscribed in them can easily and quickly become increasingly outlandish. On the other hand, such an idea is extravagantly outlandish. There is nothing outlandish about what is required here. It is not an outlandish position; after all, real-business-cycle theory embodies that today. We hope that this theorem will convince the skeptical reader that our theory is not as outlandish as it might seem. More full-page ads were placed in newspapers, each more outlandish than the last. I hope to have shown that this view is not as outlandish as it might at first appear. His face is often covered with improbable facial hair, pulled into grimaces, and topped with outlandish hats. This scenario should not strike us as all that outlandish. Much of the urban populace seem to have taken this outlandish pageant firmly in their stride. Which means, not making outlandish purchases if there's no way of managing them. From these fairly plausible arguments, the authors move on to more outlandish assertions, for example that the role of the larynx affects acting style. Here, and in other parts of the book, the author occasionally lends unnecessary credence to outlandish and scientifically unsupported explanations of tektites that have long since been discredited. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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