Word Meanings - OUTRAGEOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Of the nature of an outrage; exceeding the limits of right, reason, or decency; involving or doing an outrage; furious; violent; atrocious. "Outrageous weeping." Chaucer. "The most outrageous villainies." Sir P. Sidney. "The vile, outrageous
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Of the nature of an outrage; exceeding the limits of right, reason, or decency; involving or doing an outrage; furious; violent; atrocious. "Outrageous weeping." Chaucer. "The most outrageous villainies." Sir P. Sidney. "The vile, outrageous crimes." Shak. "Outrageous panegyric." Dryden. Syn. -- Violent; furious; exorbitant; excessive; atrocious; monstrous; wanton; nefarious; heinous. -- Out*ra"geous*ly, adv. -- Out*ra"geous*ness, n.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of OUTRAGEOUS)
- Atrocious
- Monstrous
- nefarious
- wicked
- outrageous
- villainous
- enormous
- shameful
- heinous
- cruel
- flagrant
- facinorous
- flagitious
- Gross
- Entire
- vulgar
- vicious
- impure
- coarse
- bloated
- sensual
- animal
- bulk
- indelicate
- unseemly
Related words: (words related to OUTRAGEOUS)
- OUTRAGEOUS
Of the nature of an outrage; exceeding the limits of right, reason, or decency; involving or doing an outrage; furious; violent; atrocious. "Outrageous weeping." Chaucer. "The most outrageous villainies." Sir P. Sidney. "The vile, outrageous - ANIMALIZATION
1. The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties. 2. Conversion into animal matter by the process of assimilation. Owen. - ANIMALCULISM
The theory which seeks to explain certain physiological and pathological by means of animalcules. - ANIMALITY
Animal existence or nature. Locke. - COARSE
was anciently written course, or cours, it may be an abbreviation of of course, in the common manner of proceeding, common, and hence, homely, made for common domestic use, plain, rude, rough, gross, e. 1. Large in bulk, or composed of large parts - ANIMALLY
Physically. G. Eliot. - ANIMALNESS
Animality. - FLAGRANT
1. Flaming; inflamed; glowing; burning; ardent. The beadle's lash still flagrant on their back. Prior. A young man yet flagrant from the lash of the executioner or the beadle. De Quincey. Flagrant desires and affections. Hooker. 2. Actually in - SENSUALISTIC
1. Sensual. 2. Adopting or teaching the doctrines of sensualism. - FACINOROUS
Atrociously wicked. Jer. Taylor. -- Fa*cin"o*rous*ness, n. - CRUEL
1. Disposed to give pain to others; willing or pleased to hurt, torment, or afflict; destitute of sympathetic kindness and pity; savage; inhuman; hard-hearted; merciless. Behold a people cometh from the north country; . . . they are cruel and have - SENSUAL
1. Pertaining to, consisting in, or affecting, the sense, or bodily organs of perception; relating to, or concerning, the body, in distinction from the spirit. Pleasing and sensual rites and ceremonies. Bacon. Far as creation's ample range extends, - INDELICATE
Not delicate; wanting delicacy; offensive to good manners, or to purity of mind; coarse; rude; as, an indelicate word or suggestion; indelicate behavior. Macaulay. -- In*del"i*cate*ly, adv. Syn. -- Indecorous; unbecoming; unseemly; rude; coarse; - ENORMOUSLY
In an enormous degree. - WICKER
1. A small pliant twig or osier; a rod for making basketwork and the like; a withe. 2. Wickerwork; a piece of wickerwork, esp. a basket. Then quick did dress His half milk up for cheese, and in a press Of wicker pressed it. Chapman. 3. Same as - SENSUALISM
The doctrine that all our ideas, or the operations of the understanding, not only originate in sensation, but are transformed sensations, copies or relics of sensations; sensationalism; sensism. (more info) 1. The condition or character of one - ANIMALCULIST
1. One versed in the knowledge of animalcules. Keith. 2. A believer in the theory of animalculism. - COARSELY
In a coarse manner; roughly; rudely; inelegantly; uncivilly; meanly. - ENORMOUS
1. Exceeding the usual rule, norm, or measure; out of due proportion; inordinate; abnormal. "Enormous bliss." Milton. "This enormous state." Shak. "The hoop's enormous size." Jenyns. Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait. Milton. - ANIMAL
1. An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity or stomach for digestion; by giving carbonic acid to the air and taking oxygen in the process - UNSEEMLY
Not seemly; unbecoming; indecent. An unseemly outbreak of temper. Hawthorne. - BRUNSWICK GREEN
An oxychloride of copper, used as a green pigment; also, a carbonate of copper similarly employed. - BAILIWICK
The precincts within which a bailiff has jurisdiction; the limits of a bailiff's authority. - CONVICIOUS
Expressing reproach; abusive; railing; taunting. "Convicious words." Queen Elizabeth . - BRUNSWICK BLACK
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