adj. Highly unconventional; eccentric or bizarre: "outré and affected stage antics" (Michael Heaton). [French, from Old French, defeated, past participle of outrer, to pass someone, from outre, beyond, from Latin ultrā; see al-1 in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.] |
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