| Main Entry: | outlandish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bizarre, strange |
Synonyms: |
alien, awkward, barbaric, barbarous, boorish, clumsy, curious, droll, eccentric, erratic, exotic, extravagant, fantastic, far-out, foreign, freakish, gauche, graceless, grotesque, kinky*, odd, outrageous, outré, peculiar, preposterous, quaint, queer, ridiculous, rude, singular, tasteless, ultra, unconventional, uncouth, unheard-of, unorthodox, unusual, weird, whimsical, wild |
Antonyms: |
common, familiar, normal, ordinary, usual |
| Main Entry: | bizarre |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | strange, wild |
Synonyms: |
bugged out, camp*, comical, curious, eccentric, extraordinary, fantastic, far-out, freakish, grody, grotesque, kooky, ludicrous, odd, oddball, off the wall, offbeat, outlandish, outré, peculiar, queer, ridiculous, singular, unusual, way-out, weird |
| Notes: | a bazaar is a shop or market while bizarre means odd or unusual macabre means shockingly repellent or inspiring horror; bizarre means odd or unusual |
Antonyms: |
normal, reasonable, usual |
| Main Entry: | eccentric |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bizarre, unusual |
Synonyms: |
aberrant, abnormal, anomalous, beat*, bent*, bizarre, capricious, characteristic, cockeyed, crazy, curious, droll, erratic, far out, flaky, freak, freakish, funky*, funny, idiosyncratic, irregular, kooky, nutty, odd, oddball, off the wall, off-center, offbeat, out in left field, outlandish, peculiar, quaint, queer, quirky, quizzical, singular, strange, uncommon, unconventional, unnatural, way out, weird, whimsical, wild |
Antonyms: |
boring, common, dull, normal, ordinary, plain, regular, standard, unexciting, usual |
| Main Entry: | exotic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not native or usual; mysterious |
Synonyms: |
alien, alluring, avant garde, bizarre, colorful, curious, different, enticing, external, extraneous, extraordinary, extrinsic, far out, fascinating, foreign, glamorous, imported, introduced, kinky*, outlandish, outside, peculiar, peregrine, romantic, strange, striking, unfamiliar, unusual, way out, weird* |
Antonyms: |
familiar, normal, ordinary, usual |
| Main Entry: | fantastic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | strange, different; imaginary |
Synonyms: |
absurd, artificial, capricious, chimerical, comical, crazy, eccentric, erratic, exotic, extravagant, extreme, fanciful, far-fetched, fictional, foolish, foreign, freakish, grotesque, hallucinatory, illusive, imaginative, implausible, incredible, insane, irrational, ludicrous, mad, misleading, nonsensical, odd, out of sight, outlandish, peculiar, phantasmagorical, preposterous, quaint, queer, ridiculous, singular, suppositious, unbelievable, unlikely, unreal, wacky*, weird, whimsical |
Antonyms: |
common, commonplace, conventional, customary, familiar, ordinary, plain, usual |
| Main Entry: | foreign |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | from another country, experience |
Synonyms: |
adopted, alien, alienated, antipodal, barbarian, barbaric, borrowed, derived, different, distant, estranged, exiled, exotic, expatriate, external, extralocal, extraneous, extrinsic, far, far-fetched, far-off, faraway, from abroad, immigrant, imported, inaccessible, nonnative, nonresident, not domestic, not native, offshore, outlandish, outside, overseas, remote, strange, transoceanic, unaccustomed, unexplored, unfamiliar, unknown |
Antonyms: |
local, national, native |
| Main Entry: | freakish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | abnormal, unusual |
Synonyms: |
aberrant, arbitrary, bizarre, capricious, crazy, erratic, fantastic, far-out, freaky, grotesque, malformed, monstrous, odd, outlandish, outré, preternatural, queer, strange, unconventional, vagarious, wayward, weird, whimsical, wild |
Antonyms: |
common, general, natural, normal, ordinary, standard, usual |
| Main Entry: | graceless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | clumsy, unsophisticated |
Synonyms: |
awkward, barbarian, barbaric, barbarous, boorish, clunky, coarse, corrupt, crude*, forced, gauche, gawky, ill-mannered, improper, indecorous, inelegant, inept, infelicitous, klutzy, loutish, oafish, outlandish, rough, rude, shameless, tasteless, two left feet, uncouth, uncultured, unfortunate, ungainly, unhappy, unmannered |
Antonyms: |
beautiful, charming, dexterous, elegant, graceful, sophisticated |
| Main Entry: | grotesque |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ugly, misshapen |
Synonyms: |
aberrant, abnormal, absurd, antic, bizarre, deformed, distorted, eerie, extravagant, extreme, fanciful, fantastic, flamboyant, freakish, grody, gross*, incongruous, ludicrous, malformed, monstrous, odd, outlandish, perverted, preposterous, queer, ridiculous, strange, surrealistic, uncanny, unnatural, weird, whimsical |
Antonyms: |
beautiful, nice, pretty, shapely |
| Main Entry: | incredible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | beyond belief |
Synonyms: |
absurd, far-fetched, fishy, flimsy*, implausible, impossible, improbable, incogitable, inconceivable, insupposable, out of the question, outlandish, phony, preposterous, questionable, ridiculous, rings phony, suspect, thin*, unbelievable, unconvincing, unimaginable, unsubstantial, untenable, unthinkable |
Antonyms: |
believable, credible, plausible, possible, realistic, tenable |