outlandish /ˌaʊtˈlændɪʃ/adjective 4noun 1forms 2 adjective4 •Appearing to be foreign; strange, unfamiliar.Roast beef and plum pudding are also held in superstitious veneration, and port and sherry maintain their grounds as the only true English wines; all others being considered vile outlandish beverages. — 1820 •Greatly different from common experience; bizarre, outrageous, strange.The rock star wore black with outlandish pink and green spiked hair. •Of a place: far away from where most people are located; in the middle of nowhere, out of the way, remote.It will be very convenient to have a medical man—if he is clever—in one's own parish. I get dreadfully nervous sometimes, living in such an outlandish place; and Sherton is so far to send to. — 1886 •(no longer used) Of or from a foreign country; not indigenous or native; alien, foreign.[W]e haue bꝛokẽ thy statutes ⁊ cõmaundementes agayne, ⁊ mengled o^ꝛ selues wᵗ the vnclẽnes of the outlandish heithen. — 1535 noun1 •(no longer used) A foreign language.Never stir if that Gentleman ben't the same that vve see'd at the Painting Man's, that vvas so zivil to Mother, only he has got a black VVig on, and speaks outlandish. — 1752 formsmore outlandish · most outlandish
