outrageous

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Violating morality or decency; provoking indignation or affront.

   To be, or not to be, that is the Question: / Whether 'tis Nobler in the minde to suffer / The Slings and Arrowes of outragious Fortune, / Or to take Armes against a Sea of troubles, / And by opposing end them [...].

2. 2
   adj

   Transgressing reasonable limits; extravagant, immoderate.

   "Now, the Lord have mercy upon me!" exclaimed Sir Robert, sinking back in his chair; "there is nothing in the world so unreasonable as a pretty woman. Well, let me hear what outrageous proposition is about to come from two at once!"

3. 3
   adj

   Shocking; exceeding conventional behaviour; provocative.

   She mixed furniture with the same fatal profligacy as she mixed drinks, and this outrageous contact between things which were intended by Nature to be kept poles apart gave her an inexpressible thrill.

4. 4
   adj

   Fierce, violent.

   For els my feeble vessell, crazd and crackt / Through thy strong buffets and outrageous blowes, / Cannot endure, but needes it must be wrackt [...].

5. 5
   adj

   greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation

6. 6
   adj

   grossly offensive to decency or morality

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman outrageus, Middle French outrageus, from outrage; equivalent to outrage + -ous.