outrageous
形容词 adj.
英 /aʊtˈɹeɪd͡ʒəs/
美 /aʊtˈɹeɪd͡ʒəs/|/æɔtˈɹæɪd͡ʒəs/
英文释义
形容词 adj.
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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 [...].
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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!"
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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.
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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 [...].
词汇关系
词源
From Anglo-Norman outrageus, Middle French outrageus, from outrage; equivalent to outrage + -ous.
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