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outragious

outragious is the archaic spelling of outrageous.

Meaning of outrageous

Adjective

outrageous (comparative more outrageous, superlative most outrageous)

  1. 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 [...].c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...
  2. 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!"1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “An Audience”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 254
  3. 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.1935, George Goodchild, chapter 1, in Death on the Centre Court
  4. (archaic) 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 [...].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of outragious

comparativemore outragious
superlativemost outragious

Questions about outragious

What is outragious the archaic spelling of?
Outragious is the archaic spelling of outrageous.

Words near outragious in the dictionary

  1. outrages of modesty
  2. outragest
  3. outrageth
  4. outraging
  5. outragings
  6. outragious
  7. outraise
  8. outraised
  9. outraises
  10. outraising
  11. outrake

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