| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | ou·tré |
| PRONUNCIATION: |   -tr  |
| ADJECTIVE: | Highly unconventional; eccentric or bizarre: “outré and affected stage antics” (Michael Heaton). | | ETYMOLOGY: | French, from Old French, defeated, past participle of outrer, to pass someone, from outre, beyond, from Latin ultr. See al-1 in Appendix I.
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