outré
/uˈtɹeɪ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.58 in modern English
4
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Beyond what is customary or proper; extravagant.
adj
Very unconventional.
Example Sentences
- "I believe I have been very rude; but really Miss Fairfax has done her hair in so odd a way—so very odd a way—that I cannot keep my eyes from her. I never saw any thing so outrée!—Those curls!—This must be a fancy of her own. I see nobody else looking like her!"
- "He hated people who did not know where to stop. Ernest was always so outré and strange; there was never any knowing what he would do next, except that it would be something unusual and silly."
- "Her career as a performer, a model and a high priestess of the outré has been rooted for decades in catwalk-Kabuki mischief and provocation."
- "Are his patrons simply too giddy in this post-pandemic moment to muster sustained outrage over his outré behavior?"
- "1992, David Littlejohn, The Ultimate Art: Essays Around and About Opera, Chapter 16: The Twentieth Century Takes on Shakespeare, page 261, To begin with, King Lear is the most unconventional, the most nearly hysterical, the most outré and outrageous play Shakespeare ever wrote."