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adj
Of or from a foreign country; not indigenous or native; alien, foreign.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: non-native, acquired, additional, adventitious, alien, ascititious, extraneous, foreign, fremd, intrusive, outlandish, strange, supplemental, tramontane
Antonyms: inlandish, unoutlandish, aboriginal, autochthonal, autochthonous, endemic, indigenous, native
adj
Appearing to be foreign; strange, unfamiliar.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Greatly different from common experience; bizarre, outrageous, strange.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly
Synonyms: aberrant, abnormal, alien, anomalous, as queer as Dick's hatband, bizarre, booky, curious, deviant, discrepant, eerie, eldritch, errant, exceptional, extraordinary, fey, forby, freak, freakish, freaky, fremd, funny, heteroclite, hinky, incongruous, incongruitous, irregular, kooky, monstrous, nonstandard, odd, outlandish, out of the ordinary, outré, peculiar, quaint, queer, queer as a clockwork orange, queer as a nine bob note, queer as a three dollar bill, queer as a coot, queer as Dick's hatband, rare, rum, rummy, selcouth, seld, singular, strange, trippy, uncanny, uncommon, uncouth, unconventional, unearthly, unexpected, unreasonable, unusual, unwonted, weird, weirdsome, yampy
Antonyms: unoutlandish, average, medial, basic, bog-standard, common, commonplace, common-and-garden, common-or-garden, congruent, consistent, conventional, customary, everyday, expected, garden variety, improminent, mundane, natural, normal, ordinary, par for the course, par, plain, plain vanilla, quotidian, regular, routine, run-of-the-mill, standard, standard issue, typical, unexceptional, unremarkable, unstrange, usual, vulgar, wakeaday, workaday
adj
Of a place: far away from where most people are located; in the middle of nowhere, out of the way, remote.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, derogatory
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: in the boondocks, distant, far, far-flung, far-off, faraway, outlandish, outlying, out of the way, remote
Antonyms: around the corner, citerior, close, close by, immediate, near, nearby, nigh, present, propinquitous, proximate
noun
A foreign language.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: bizarre, eccentric, freakish, freaky, flaky, flakey, gonzo, off-the-wall, outre
Antonyms: none provided
History
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. The noun is derived from the adjective. Cognates * Danish udenlandsk (“foreign, non-domestic”) * Dutch uitlands (dated) (now buitenlands (“foreign, non-domestic”)), Dutch uitlandig (“absent from the home country”) (now chiefly Suriname) * Faroese útlendskur (“foreign, non-domestic”) * German ausländisch (“foreign, non-domestic”) * Icelandic útlenskur (“foreign”) * Swedish utländsk (“foreign, non-domestic”)
Across languages
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