outré

• outre
• outrée (in reference to women)

French outré, form of outrer (“to go to excess”); see also outre (“beyond”).

• IPA^(key): /uˈtɹeɪ/

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• Rhymes: -eɪ

outré (comparative more outré, superlative most outré)

1. Beyond what is customary or proper; extravagant.
   • 1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter VIII, in Emma: , volume II, London: for John Murray, →OCLC, page 152:

     I believe I have been very rude; but really Miss Fairfax has done her hair in so odd a way—so very odd a way—that I cannot keep my eyes from her. I never saw any thing so outrée!—Those curls!—This must be a fancy of her own. I see nobody else looking like her!

   • 1903, Samuel Butler, chapter 50, in The Way of All Flesh:

     He hated people who did not know where to stop. Ernest was always so outré and strange; there was never any knowing what he would do next, except that it would be something unusual and silly.

   • 2021 July 17, Jacob Bernstein, “Keith McNally Stirs the Pot”, in The New York Times‎:

     Are his patrons simply too giddy in this post-pandemic moment to muster sustained outrage over his outré behavior?

2. Very unconventional.
   • 1992, David Littlejohn, The Ultimate Art: Essays Around and About Opera, Chapter 16: The Twentieth Century Takes on Shakespeare, page 261,

     To begin with, King Lear is the most unconventional, the most nearly hysterical, the most outré and outrageous play Shakespeare ever wrote.

• (unconventional): bizarre, eccentric, outlandish

• utero-, outer, ruote, Toure, route, rouet, Route

• IPA^(key): /u.tʁe/

outré (feminine outrée, masculine plural outrés, feminine plural outrées)

1. excessive
2. outrageous
3. outraged

outré (feminine outrée, masculine plural outrés, feminine plural outrées)

1. past participle of outrer

• “outré”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

• route, routé, troue, troué