outlandish

adj

1. strange, unfamiliar, unknown, foreign, exotic, alien, bohemian, unconventional, unorthodox, different, foreign looking; rare, fanciful, original, exceptional, striking, unique, wonderful, wondrous, marvelous, remarkable, fascinating.

2. bizarre, odd, unusual, uncommon; queer, peculiar, curious, singular, off-beat, Inf. funny, quaint, eccentric; ludicrous, ridiculous, comical, droll; weird, Inf. freaky, Inf. campy, Inf. kinky; unbelievable, incredible, unheard-of, extraordinary, unthought-of, undreamed-of, unexampled, unimagined, unprecedented, Inf. out-of-this-world; inconceivable, preposterous, indescribable, nondescript, unparalleled.

3. monstrous, abnormal, freakish, unnatural, Biol. teratogenic, Biol. teratological, grotesque, fantastic; erratic, irregular, aberrant, deviative, divergent.

4. barbarous, barbaric, barbarian, uncivilized, wild; rustic, rude, uncouth, boorish, coarse, raw, savage; rural, provincial, cloddish, Inf. from the sticks or hills, hick, backwoods, backwoodsy, wild-and-woolly, rough-and-ready.

5. out-of-the-way, remote, distant, faraway, far-off, unfrequented; isolated, inaccessible, secluded, insular, forsaken,' lonely, Godforsaken, in a backwater, forgotten by the world; off the beaten path, removed, separate, apart; uncharted, unexplored, unplumbed, undiscovered; back-country, up-country, Australian. outback, wild, wilderness, back of beyond, over the mountain or hills, tramontane, ultramontane, across the sea, over the water, extraterritorial; unearthly, extraterrestrial.